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- ISBN 9781780226217
- Weight: 218g
- Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jun 2015
- Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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'A masterpiece' GUARDIAN
'A wonderfully ingenious novel, compelling, convincing and exciting' John Banville
A mystery unsolved to this day
A mystic who confounds the cynics
A writer looking for the story that will make his name
A ghost ship appears in the mist. To the struggling author Arthur Conan Doyle, it is an inspiration. To Violet Petra, the gifted American psychic, it is a cruel reminder. To the death-obsessed Victorian public, it is a fascinating distraction. And to one family, tied to the sea for generations, it is a tragedy.
In salons and on rough seas, at séances and in the imagination of a genius, these stories converge in unexpected ways as the mystery of the ghost ship deepens. But will the sea yield its secrets, and to whom?
Valerie Martin is one of America's finest contemporary novelists, best known for her Orange Prize-winning PROPERTY and also the acclaimed MARY REILLY, which was filmed by Stephen Frears. Other highly praised novels include THE GHOST OF THE MARY CELESTE and MRS GULLIVER.
She is the author of three collections of short stories and SALVATION, a biography of St Francis.
www.valeriemartinonline.com
