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A haunting tale of apparitions, a cursed manor house, and two generations of women determined to discover the truth, by the author of The Ghost Writer

Sell the Hall unseen; burn it to the ground and plow the earth with salt, if you will; but never live there...

Constance Langton grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother in perpetual mourning for Constance's sister, the child she lost. Desperate to coax her mother back to health, Constance takes her to a séance; perhaps she will find comfort from beyond the grave. But the meeting has tragic consequences. Constance is left alone, her only legacy a mysterious bequest that will blight her life.

So begins this brilliant and gripping novel, a dark mystery set in late-Victorian England. It is a world of apparitions, of disappearances and unnatural phenomena, of betrayal and blackmail and black-hearted villains—and of murder. Constance's bequest comes in two parts: a house and a mystery. Years before, a family disappeared at Wraxford Hall, a decaying mansion in the English countryside with a sinister reputation. Now the Hall belongs to Constance, and she must descend into the darkness at the heart of the Wraxford mystery to find the truth—even at the cost of her life.

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"An electrifying Victorian ghost story" from the International Horror Guild Award-winning author of The Asylum (The Seattle Times).

"Sell the Hall unseen; burn it to the ground and plow the earth with salt, if you will; but never live there . . ." Constance Langton grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother in perpetual mourning for Constance's sister, the child she lost. Desperate to coax her mother back to health, Constance takes her to a séance: perhaps she will find comfort from beyond the grave. But the meeting has tragic consequences. Constance is left alone, her only legacy a mysterious bequest that will blight her life.

So begins The Séance, John Harwood's brilliant second novel, a gripping, dark mystery set in late-Victorian England. It is a world of apparitions, of disappearances and unnatural phenomena, of betrayal and blackmail and black-hearted villainsâ??and murder. For Constance's bequest comes in two parts: a house and a mystery. Years before, a family disappeared at Wraxford Hall, a decaying mansion in the English countryside with a sinister reputation. Now the Hall belongs to Constance. And she must descend into the darkness at the heart of the Wraxford Mystery to find the truth, even at the cost of her life.

"Harwood has written a true gothic, and invented a supremely creepy house to stage it in."â??Salon

"Wilkie Collins would be proud: this is a Victorian world of mesmerism and spirits, vapours and delirium, doomed inheritances, shivery maids and spooky visitations in the night."â??Times (UK)

"Perfect fare for a standard dark and stormy

Sell the Hall unseen; burn it to the ground and plough the earth with salt, if you will; but never live there London, the 1880s. A young girl grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother in perpetual mourning for the child she lost. Desperate to coax her mother back to health, Constance Langton takes her to a séance. Perhaps they will find comfort from beyond the grave. But that séance has tragic consequences. Constance is left alone, her only legacy a mysterious bequest will blight her life. So begins The Séance, John Harwood s brilliant second novel, a gripping, dark mystery set in late Victorian England. It is a world of apparitions, of disappearances and unnatural phenomena, of betrayal and blackmail and black-hearted villains and murder. For Constance s bequest comes in two parts: a house, and a mystery. Years before a family disappeared at Wraxford Hall, a terrifying stately home near the Suffolk coast. Now Constance must find the truth behind the mystery, even at the cost of her life. Because without the truth, she is lost.

Growing up with a distant father and a mother in perpetual mourning for a lost child, Constance Langton takes her mother to a se?ance hoping to help her find peace, only to be left alone to deal with a legacy of a decaying mansion in rural England.

Constance Langton grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother in perpetual mourning for Constance's sister, the child she lost. Desperate to coax her mother back to health, Constance takes her to a séance: perhaps she will find comfort from beyond the grave. But the meeting has tragic consequences. Constance is left alone, her only legacy a bequest in two parts that will blight her life: a house and a mystery.

London, the 1880s. A young girl grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother in perpetual mourning for the child she lost. Desperate to coax her mother back to health, Constance Langton takes her to a seance. Perhaps they will find comfort from beyond the grave, but there are tragic consequences.

Constance Langton inherits a mysterious Tudor estate, Wraxford Hall, where she is drawn into the home's chilling history and finds an almost supernatural link with the missing daughter of Wraxford Hall's former owner.

London, 1881. Constance Langton lives in a gloomy home with a distant father and a grief-stricken mother; seeking refuge and comfort, she secretly attends a séance which has tragic consequences. Left alone, her only legacy is a mysterious inheritance that will blight her life and take her deep into a world of apparitions, betrayal and blackmail, black-hearted villains - and murder.

Constance takes her grieving mother to a s?eance which leads to tragic consequences and a legacy that will blight her life.

The Seance is set in Victorian England where Constance Langton lives with her distant father and a mother who has never recovered from the death of her infant daughter. Constance suspects that she's a foundling, but she takes her mother to a seance to hear from the infant in the afterlife. It ends with disaster, though. Soon after, Constance becomes the heir to a mansion in Suffolk, but the family lawyer advises her to sell it unseen or burn it down immediately. This moves the narrative about the haunting of the hall and the tragic events that occurred a lifetime ago, but Constance needs to understand it to salvage her life in the present.

Constance Langton, the narrator of the story, has known little but grief in her young life. Her younger sister dies of scarlatina at the age of 2, and her mother goes into perpetual mourning. Poor Constance is ignored and abandoned by her distant father, and her only succor becomes the chance that a medium at a seance might provide a way for her mother to contact the dead child. But the dead rarely answer our calls, and when Constance pretends that they do, she brings down even greater sorrow.

À la fin de l'ère victorienne, Constance Langton apprend qu'elle hérite d'un manoir familial dans le Suffolk, Wraxford Hall, de sinistre réputation : ses propriétaires et leur neveu Magnus y sont morts et Eleanor Unwin, la femme de Magnus, y a mystérieusement disparu avec sa fille, ne laissant que son journal intime. Constance va lever peu à peu les mystères qui entourent ce manoir.--[Memento].