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| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Deep in the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth century Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and home. Alone in the forest, she meets a band of soldiers who, believing her to be a boy train and develop her – and the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the way, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As he digs further and uncovers links to his own family history, Celavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoria, in the hope that they can lay the ghosts of their shared history to rest, before it's too late... [[The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan|Full Review]] <!-- de Lacey Davidson d'Eramo -->
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===[[Deviation by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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===For those of you who have read books of life in the Nazi camps – and of course, for those of you who have not – this can be considered a next step. It begins, after all, with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raid, and you'd not blame her one minute, as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the Germans. In Munich, she stumbles on help to get her to what seems to be a camp for non-native civilians to look for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then the next chapter sees her going back into the camp next to Dachau once more, and by then eyebrows are being raised. [[Precept: A Novel Deviation by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]===
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Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. And even more excited that his Quaker fatherWhen Barbara Hummel arrives, who is publishing determined to identify the British edition of ''Narrative'', Douglassmysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's memoir of his life as a slavepossessions, will be accompanying Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. Revisiting their time on the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by DouglassChannel Islands during World War II, who is Dora remembers a charismatic figure time when she concealed her Jewish identity, and Joe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a gifted oratortime when he hid something very different. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on In this story of love, loss and betrayal, it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the horrors darkest shadows of the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connell. war… [[Precept: A Novel The Hidden by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Turn of Midnight by Daniel PeltzMinette Walters]]===
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When we first visit At the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the company beginning of Molly Cavendish who 1349 there is a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, which is what the ruins glimmer of the Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs hope that the attention ravages of young and oldthe Black Death might be passing. Molly uses In Devilish in Dorset the history to entertain the touristspopulation is well, but therebecause of Lady Anne's more too it than she knowsstrict rules about quarantine, particularly which are regarded as heresy as they go against the history strict rules of the building is also the history church, but their stores of the Vannini family, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago food are dwindling and one of whose descendants is they know that when they are exhausted they will have no choice but to leave. What will they find on the director of outside? Are they the museum. only survivors? [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Turn of Midnight by Daniel PeltzMinette Walters|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary Frieda by Lucy WorsleyAnnabel Abbs]]===
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his divorce from Katherine of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage Married to Jane SeymourEnglish Professor Ernest Weekley, which finally produces aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by the much longed for birth confines of a male heirmarried life. This timeVisiting family in Munich, she becomes captivated by the story is told through the eyes ideas of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, Maryrevolution and free love. Mary's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by Meeting the divorce penniless writer D.H. Lawrence, she finds herself drawn into a passionate affair and she is treated terribly by a father under tempestuous relationship, changing the influence course of the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years both their lives, and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in unleashing a creative outpouring that will change the middle course of these tumultuous eventsliterature forever. [[Lady Mary Frieda by Lucy WorsleyAnnabel Abbs|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing House of Glass by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisSusan Fletcher]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
[[imageClara suffered from ''Osteogenesis imperfecta'':4starthese days it would probably be called brittle bone disease and whilst there is still no cure, treatments have advanced.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] At the beginning of the twentieth century it meant that Clara was confined to her home, living life through a window and the tales her mother, Charlotte, brought home. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones and the sounds they made on breaking. Charlotte would ''list bones like continents''. Clara would only escape the house after her mother's death - of a tumour at the age of thirty nine - and in her wanderings discovered Kew Gardens. Her growing knowledge of tropical plants led to the offer of a job stocking a newly-built glass house at Shadowbrook in Gloucestershire. [[:Category:Historical FictionHouse of Glass by Susan Fletcher|Historical FictionFull Review]]
You are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]]<!-- Mayfield Kearsley -->
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===[[The Parentations Bellewether by Kate MayfieldSusanna Kearsley]]===
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Flitting between the present day and mid 16thcentury, ''Bellewether'' tells the fascinating tale of the Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In eighteenth century Londonthe present tense aspects, sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with the Fowler family - and charged with protecting Wilde House is being turned into a mysterious childmuseum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. Fast forward to It is told from the London perspective of 2015Charley, and the sisters are still waiting - with no way of knowing if the boy is alive or dead. Far awaymuseum curator, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal life, but also forces them to keep a secret for two hundred years. As those years pass is intrigued by, those the ghost who were granted immortality find haunts the house and their story; a tale that itends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's far from sister, Lydia, and a blessing French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to live there. The perspective of the book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and Jean- with true darkness emerging Philippe. The latter two tell the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in the absence of deathhistory, just as Charley is beginning to unravel it herself. [[The Parentations Bellewether by Kate MayfieldSusanna Kearsley|Full Review]]
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===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! A Treachery of Spies by David LawsManda Scott]]===
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IWhen Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she've played Neville Chamberlain in public, you know s puzzled – a full one-line in a ''Beyond whilst the identity of the Fringewoman has been erased, it'' sketch, where he says he s clear that she has a piece of paper from Hitler. I then proceeded been killed in the same way that traitors to prove it was a paper bag, the resistance were executed in fact, by blowing it up and immediately bursting itWorld War Two. That is what that paper was to many – Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the indicator history of a lot of hot air, this woman – and only leading back to an unwelcome noise, a time when WW2 actually struck anyway. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with the Nazis, men and this book opens with the first-person reportage women of one such man1940s France were engaged in a desperate, keen on showing proof brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and more secrets come to Chamberlain light, Inès discovers that he should not sign there are many in the Sudetenland away. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely present who would rather their past stay buried – leaving a grand-daughter, Emma, at Cambridge but under a cloud of ignominy, to pick the last, barest threads of the story up and see just what did happen many who would kill to him. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… keep secrets safe… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! A Treachery of Spies by David LawsManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[Kin Murmuration by Snorri KristjanssonRobert Lock]]===
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Unnthor Reginsson is ''Murmuration'' follows the uncrowned king lives of a host of characters from 1863 to the valley; retired Viking farmer and rumoured owner of present day. From a risqué comic to a large hoard fortune teller, we see the birth of goldBlackpool and its steadily fading glamour. He There is gathering his clan, a grand reunion after ten years hint of absence. It is time for strengthening family bondsmysticism to the tale, feastingwith the mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, telling tall tales and remembering shared historydrawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the sea. [[Kin Murmuration by Snorri KristjanssonRobert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[Templar Silks The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth ChadwickH Winthrop]]===
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''Templar Silks'' is a great example of historical fiction done well. It's a fictitious account of William Marshal's time in Jerusalem during the late 1100s during a brief spell of calm before the death of King Baldwin to leprosy in 1185. Elizabeth Chadwick has written In an isolated Louisiana town, a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period young black prisoner sits in his life for lack of research. In this book she goes back to fill in the gaps having spent time studying this particular period of his life. Her main problemdingy cell, as she acknowledges staring at the end shadow of the book, is that virtually nothing is known of Marshalwindow bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's time in Jerusalemdying sun rays. We know when At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to a chair and why he wentelectrocuted for the rape of a white girl, we know who the major power players were, we know when he came back and that is about itlater committed suicide. So understandably, this book He is probably more fiction than history but resigned to his fate; it is brilliantly written none the lessfutile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, love between a black man and a white woman was never going to have a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded people. [[Templar Silks The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth ChadwickH Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[Revenge A Gathering of Ghosts by Mitchell & MitchellKaren Maitland]]===
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''Revenge'' opens with Witchcraft, the supernatural and the news will to survive at all costs collide in a story that Charles Stuart is to return to never shies away from the throne as Charles II darker side of Englandhuman nature. A young woman, Ruth Courtney, The land is returning home to her family's farmhouseunhappy, excited at the prospect old spirits want revenge and famine is kindling a resurgence of a new Kingthe old faith. She arrives homeAs fear rises, howeverit is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is tainted, to find her home ablaze its healing waters run red with blood and surrounded by renegade soldiers, supporters strangers are blowing in on a wind of Cromwell, her family nowhere to be foundchange. [[Revenge A Gathering of Ghosts by Mitchell & MitchellKaren Maitland|Full Review]]
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===[[The Baghdad Clock Mr Peacock's Possessions by Shahad Al RawiLydia Syson]]===
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''The Baghdad Clock'' is On a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand, a tale family of two friends growing up during the first and second Iraqi warsettlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a home. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism to illustrate the displacement felt by When a young girl ship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted and her neighbourhoodtheir community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappears. The novel introduces us to As both settlers and newcomers come together in the various characters surrounding search for the protagonist. They are full of life child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and yet never seem to add anything to the central narrative. Rawi, those who inhabit it would seem, has a problem with telling a story. [[The Baghdad Clock Mr Peacock's Possessions by Shahad Al RawiLydia Syson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Coffin Path Story Keeper by Katherine ClementsAnna Mazzola]]===
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Maybe you've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on the old coffin path that winds from the village Audrey, a complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, to the moor topbe more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from the villagers only speak straightjacket of it in hushed tones - of how it's a foreboding place filled with evilher home. Mercy Booth has lived there since birthWhere every action, and she's always loved the grand house and its isolationevery thought, but a recurrence of strange events begins to unsettle every yearning is controlled by her. From objects disappearing through father, who only once in his life threw caution to a shadowy presence sensed in the house, mysteries come to light that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing long-buried secretswind and married way beneath him for love. And will Now a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she widower and remarried, he has come rigorously returned to love or tear it from her grasp? upholding what is right, what is proper, the bastion of doing what is expected. [[The Coffin Path Story Keeper by Katherine ClementsAnna Mazzola|Full Review]]
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===[[Walking Wounded The Butcher's Daughter by Sheila LlewellynVictoria Glendinning]]===
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David Reece was called up in 1941 The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth of intrigue, plots and machinations. The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich and sent powerful, with so many to choose from that the well never seems to fight in Burma. On his return run dry and the characters are often those high up in 1946the circles of power, he finds a return or those prepared to do anything to civilian life quite beyond him andget there. This book, after a brawlhowever, is sent to a military psychiatric hospitaltotally different. ThereSet in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes of Agnes Peppin, he is treated by Daniel Cartera young, poor woman. As a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him that talking therapies woman she can work with men like Davideither marry, but who is working in or join a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such as ECT convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at all, and lobotomy. ''Walking Wounded'' follows both men as they both try she is sent to come to terms with traumatic experiences and find a place in a world moving on from WWIIjoin the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey. [[Walking Wounded The Butcher's Daughter by Sheila LlewellynVictoria Glendinning|Full Review]]
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===[[The Tattooist of Auschwitz Silence in the Desert by Heather MorrisDavid Longridge]]===
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So, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitz, and see As the horror there, and immediately swear to survive shadow of the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind it, but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as Second World War descends upon the Nazis demandplanet, to the extent you get the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out four people are explored in a tale of love and get a job that means you're actually friendship. Henri, fulfilling a Jew working family tradition in joining the political wing of the SSForeign Legion, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, answerable struggling to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts align his beliefs with civilian workers building the placethose of his upbringing, and trade the loot purloined from the incoming victims' belongings with food they smuggle in for youElisabeth, under the eyes of crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil. As the camp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all thatwar rages, and survived to tell the talethese men are tested like never before, but he also managed to do something even more daringwith trust, loyalty and unexpected – he dared love leading to invest hope in a burgeoning love decisions that he found in the campaffect both their lives and those all around them. [[The Tattooist of Auschwitz Silence in the Desert by Heather MorrisDavid Longridge|Full Review]]
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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Haunted Queen by Rachel HalliburtonAlison Weir]]===
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Rachel Halliburton's debut novel opens in London in January 1797. Benjamin WestWhen it comes to Jane Seymour, President the third wife of the Royal AcademyHenry VIII, popular opinion is reflecting on divided. Some see her as a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in the past yearking's scandal involving the Provises, father eyes. Others view her as a pious and God-fearing woman who brought calm and daughterstability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to Anne Boleyn. Perhaps both sides are true, and worries that he handled everything poorlyto an extent. From In ''The Haunted Queen,'' the start third book in the book's figurative language is appropriately full of colour and painterly techniques: 'He had intended to deal with them honourablySix Tudor Queens'' series, but now everyone in London was saying he had not. It was as if somebody had dropped author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a small amount Queen haunted by the shadow of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment on a palette – the more he prodded and stirred the memory, the murkier it becameformidable predecessor.' [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Haunted Queen by Rachel HalliburtonAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[W In Gold's Name by John BanksMarcus Dalrymple]]===
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On It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed the slopes end of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000the Aztec Empire and the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-year old Viking is discovered frozen without- three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationantlers. Some thought the Spaniards were gods. Josh Kinninger is inspired Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially a decent man, particularly by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored and standards of the time. He was the finest marksman with his world harquebus on the force, but at the age of twenty three he believed that the expedition in turmoilOctober 1520 was to establish trade links and to convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrifices. Beginning He'd joined the army from a journey westwardseminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, he's filled with a desire d failed to wreak vengeance on appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the individuals he finds morally corruptAztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torture. [[W In Gold's Name by John BanksMarcus Dalrymple|Full Review]]
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===[[Christmas at Woolworths The Industry of Human Happiness by Elaine EverestJames Hall]]===
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''Christmas at WoolworthsThe Industry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a novel about music. It is the sequel about human beings being able to wartime saga The Woolworths Girls, find music and continues magic in the story where the first book left offsimplest of places. Members Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of the close-knit community in Erith are doing their best to pull together and keep morale high, even though the future is uncertainopening a gramophone company. At the heart of the neighbourhoodHowever, the home of kindly matriarch Ruby is a beacon where family and friends can gather for good food their ambition and conversation: hubris soon puts them on a way to forget the troubles outsidecourse towards London's underworld. Spirits remain high; even when the bombs are falling so close to home. We catch up with the three friends from the first book: Sarah yearns for peace They will ascend broken and an end to the war, Maisie is desperate for a child and Freda would love to find romancetheir lives changed forever. Will they all get their wishes this Christmas? [[Christmas at Woolworths The Industry of Human Happiness by Elaine EverestJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last Hours Spirit Photographer by Minette WaltersJon Michael Varese]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
In June 1348 the Black Death came into the country through the port of Melcombe in Dorset. Ignorant of many rules of hygiene which we'd find basic nearly seven hundred years later, the disease rages through the country. On the estate of Develish, Lady Anne Develish took control of the future of the people who lived in the demesne after her husband had ridden off to try and secure a marriage for his daughter. Two hundred bonded serfs lived on the estate and when Lady Anne realised the virulence of the plague she ordered that the estate refuse entry to anyone, including her husband and his entourage, for fear that they would bring the disease to her people[[image:3star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Last Hours by Minette Walters:Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
Jon Michael Varese's debut novel was inspired by the life story of the real-life father of spirit photography, William H. Mumler. His fictional stand-in here is Edward Moody, who was a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and now owns his own photography studio in Boston. Moody is dismissive of spiritualism, yet considers himself to be doing a service to the bereaved by fabricating family photographs in which the ghost of a departed loved one appears. This involves getting hold of an image of the loved one and superimposing it on the negative being developed, so that it seems to appear hazily in the background. Looking back from today's high-tech perspective, it's hard to see how anyone could have been fooled, but suffering people in desperate situations often want to believe; the same goes for séances. [[The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese|Full Review]]
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