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The Blackheath Seance Parlour

The Blackheath Seance Parlour

Author(s): Alan Williams

Location(s): London

Genre(s): Historical, Horror

Era(s): 1842

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In 1842, two sisters drunkenly debate their future, their family chocolate business has failed and so they decide to open a seance parlour. The locals are shocked but soon their shop is crammed with people wanting to contact the dead. Despite their change in fortune, a rift forms between the sisters, as young sister Judy gets her novel published, finds a man and proves to be more capable of contacting spirits than Maggie. Spurred on by jealousy, Maggie tries harder and soon even the Queen is consulting her. The Church decides they must be stopped by any means possible.

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This is such a gripping book and if you know Blackheath then you have to read it! – Elija+Books –

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