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Edinburgh, 1923: Edinburgh has never seemed so gothic and chilling
Hazardous Spirits
What you need to know before your trail
Evelyn Hazard is a young woman living a comfortable and unremarkable middle-class life. One day, her quiet existence is shattered when her steady, reliable husband Robert makes a startling announcement: he can communicate with the dead.
As the couple are pulled into the spiritualist movement that emerged following the mass deaths caused by the First World War and the Spanish Flu, Evelyn’s life becomes increasingly unsettled as dark secrets from her past threaten to surface.
Faced with the prospect of losing all that is dear to her, Evelyn finds herself asking: is the man she loves a fraud, a madman or – most frighteningly – is he telling the truth
Travel Guide
Edinburgh 1923
There’s no other novel that quite sets up Edinburgh as the Spiritualist Centre it apparently was in the 1920s quite like this one.
The streets are dark and cobbled, covered in shadows with the whisper of something chilling on the wind.
There is rain, cloud and darkness even in daylight.
The waters of Leith are swirling and ink- coloured
The doors of the Spiritualist Society don’t open for just anyone.
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Destination: Edinburgh Author/guide: Anbara Salam Departure Time: 1923
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