Fantasy

Wild Talent

by Eileen Kernaghan
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Description

Wild Talent tells the strange tale of Jeannie Guthrie, a sixteen-year-old Scottish farm worker, who possesses a frightening talent. Believing that she has unintentionally killed her ne'er-do-well cousin, and fearing that she will be sentenced as a witch, she flees to London. There, she is befriended by the free-spirited and adventurous Alexandra David, and introduced to Madame Helena Blavatsky's famous salon, where she begins to understand the source of her mysterious powers. We follow Jeannie and Alexandra as they venture from the late Victorian world of spiritualists and theosophists to the fin de siècle Paris of artists, anarchists and esoteric cults; and finally to the perilous country of the Beyond.

What it’s like

ViolenceStandard
HorrorChilling

Details

First published
September 1, 2008
Pages
224
Reading time
About 4 hours
Format
Novel
Publisher
Thistledown Press
ISBN
9781897235409
Series
Standalone

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