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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions The Phoenix of Florence by Lydia SysonPhilip Kazan]]===
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On a remote volcanic island off Deep in the coast Tuscan countryside of New Zealandfifteenth century Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a and home. When Alone in the forest, she meets a ship appearsband of soldiers who, they feel that their wishes have been granted believing her to be a boy train and their community reinvigorated develop her – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when and the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable boy disappearsagain. Along the way, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As both settlers he digs further and newcomers come together uncovers links to his own family history, Celavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoria, in the search for hope that they can lay the child, they uncover farghosts of their shared history to rest, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit before it's too late... [[Mr Peacock's Possessions The Phoenix of Florence by Lydia SysonPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Story Keeper Deviation by Anna MazzolaLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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Audrey, a complex mix For those of flights you who have read books of fancy life in the Nazi camps – and seriousnessof course, wantingfor those of you who have not – this can be considered a next step. It begins, needingafter all, to be more than what everyone expects of with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing herwork assignment during a bombing raid, escapes from the straightjacket of and you'd not blame her home. Where every action, every thoughtone minute, every yearning is controlled by as her father, who only once in his life threw caution career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the wind and married way beneath him for loveGermans. Now a widower and remarriedIn Munich, he has rigorously returned she stumbles on help to get her to upholding what is rightseems to be a camp for non-native civilians to look for work, or company, what is properor transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then the next chapter sees her going back into the bastion of doing what is expectedcamp next to Dachau once more, and by then eyebrows are being raised. [[The Story Keeper Deviation by Anna MazzolaLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Butcher's Daughter Count of 9 by Victoria GlendinningErle Stanley Gardner]]===
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''The Tudor era Count of 9'' 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 powerful, with so many to choose from that the well never seems to run dry and the characters are often those high up hardboiled detective story written in the circles of power, or those prepared to do anything to get there1950s. This book, however, is totally different. Set in It revolves around the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes detective duo of Agnes Peppin, a young, poor woman. As a woman she can either marry, or join a convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at all, Donald Lam and she is sent Bertha Cool as they attempt to join solve the nuns theft of Shaftesbury Abbeypriceless Bornean artefacts. However, their case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murder. [[The Butcher's Daughter Count of 9 by Victoria GlendinningErle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[Silence in the Desert The Hidden by David LongridgeMary Chamberlain]]===
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As When Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the shadow of mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. Revisiting their time on the Second Channel Islands during World War descends upon the planetII, four people are explored in Dora remembers a tale of love time when she concealed her Jewish identity, and friendship. HenriJoe, fulfilling a family tradition in joining the Foreign LegionCatholic Priest, Billremembers a time when he hid something very different. In this story of love, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leoloss and betrayal, struggling it remains to align his beliefs with those be seen whether a speck of his upbringing, and Elisabeth, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil. As light can diffuse the war rages, these men are tested like never before, with trust, loyalty and love leading to decisions that affect both their lives and those all around them. darkest shadows of war… [[Silence in the Desert The Hidden by David LongridgeMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen Turn of Midnight by Alison WeirMinette Walters]]===
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When it comes to Jane Seymour, At the third wife beginning of Henry VIII, popular opinion 1349 there is divideda glimmer of a hope that the ravages of the Black Death might be passing. Some see her as a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour In Devilish in Dorset the kingpopulation is well, because of Lady Anne's eyes. Others view her strict rules about quarantine, which are regarded as heresy as a pious they go against the strict rules of the church, but their stores of food are dwindling and God-fearing woman who brought calm and stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to Anne Boleyn. Perhaps both sides they know that when they are true, exhausted they will have no choice but to an extentleave. In ''The Haunted Queen,'' the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh What will they find on the bones of a Queen haunted by outside? Are they the shadow of a formidable predecessor. only survivors? [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen Turn of Midnight by Alison WeirMinette Walters|Full Review]]
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===[[In Gold's Name Frieda by Marcus DalrympleAnnabel Abbs]]===
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It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed the end of the Aztec Empire and the inhabitants were Married to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlers. Some thought the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially a decent manEnglish Professor Ernest Weekley, particularly aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by the standards confines of the timemarried life. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on the forceVisiting family in Munich, but at she becomes captivated by the age ideas of twenty three he believed that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links revolution and to convert free love. Meeting the local inhabitants to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrificespenniless writer D.H. He'd joined the army from Lawrence, she finds herself drawn into a seminary passionate affair and whilst you wouldn't call him naivea tempestuous relationship, he'd failed to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing changing the Aztec gold course of both their lives, and unleashing a creative outpouring that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torturewill change the course of literature forever. [[In Gold's Name Frieda by Marcus DalrympleAnnabel Abbs|Full Review]]
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===[[The Industry House of Human Happiness Glass by James HallSusan Fletcher]]===
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Clara suffered from ''The Industry of Human HappinessOsteogenesis imperfecta'' first : these days it would probably be called brittle bone disease and foremost whilst there is still no cure, treatments have advanced. At the beginning of the twentieth century it meant that Clara was confined to her home, living life through a novel about musicwindow and the tales her mother, Charlotte, brought home. It is Both became far too knowledgeable about human beings being able to find music bones and magic in the simplest 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 placesthirty nine - and in her wanderings discovered Kew Gardens. Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream Her growing knowledge of tropical plants led to the offer of opening a gramophone company. However, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on job stocking a course towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forevernewly-built glass house at Shadowbrook in Gloucestershire. [[The Industry House of Human Happiness Glass by James HallSusan Fletcher|Full Review]]
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Jon Michael VareseFlitting between the present day and mid 16thcentury, ''s debut novel was inspired by Bellewether'' tells the life story fascinating tale of the real-life father of spirit photographyWilde House and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspects, William H. Mumler. His fictional stand-in here the Wilde House is Edward Moody, who was being turned into a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and now owns his own photography studio in Bostonmuseum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. Moody It is dismissive told from the perspective of spiritualismCharley, yet considers himself to be doing a service to the bereaved museum curator, who is intrigued by fabricating family photographs in which the ghost of a departed loved one appears. This involves getting hold of an image of who haunts the loved one house and superimposing it on the negative being developed, so their story; a tale that it seems to appear hazily ends in the background. Looking back from todaytragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's highsister, Lydia, and a French-tech perspectiveCanadian lieutenant, it's hard Jean-Philippe who was sent to see how anyone could have been fooledlive there. The perspective of the book is continuously shifted between Charley, but suffering people then Lydia and Jean-Philippe. The latter two tell the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in desperate situations often want history, just as Charley is beginning to believe; the same goes for séancesunravel it herself. [[The Spirit Photographer Bellewether by Jon Michael VareseSusanna Kearsley|Full Review]]
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===[[A Treachery of Spies by Manda Scott]]===
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Nathan Whyte When Inspector Inès Picaut is tremendously excited about called to investigate the arrival horrific murder of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. And even more excited that his Quaker fathera strikingly beautiful elderly lady, who is publishing the British edition of ''Narrative'', Douglassshe's memoir puzzled – whilst the identity of his life as a slave, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglasswoman has been erased, who is a charismatic figure and a gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself clear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors to the resistance were executed in World War Two. Solving the beginnings of mystery will lead Inès deep into the horrors history of this woman – and back to a time when the potato famine men and meets women of 1940s France were engaged in a desperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and befriends more secrets come to light, Inès discovers that there are many in the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connell. present who would rather their past stay buried – and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[Precept: A Novel Treachery of Spies by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Murmuration by Daniel PeltzRobert Lock]]===
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When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in 'Murmuration'' follows the company lives of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, which is what the ruins host of characters from 1863 to the Chiesa - present day. From a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock risqué comic to a fortune teller, we see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention birth of young Blackpool and oldits steadily fading glamour. Molly uses the history There is a hint of mysticism to entertain the touriststale, but there's more too it than she knows, particularly as with the history mesmerising dance of starlings over the building is also pier acting as an anchor throughout the history of the Vannini familydistinct narratives here, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is the director drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the museumsea. [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Murmuration by Daniel PeltzRobert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary The Mercy Seat by Lucy WorsleyElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne BoleynIn an isolated Louisiana town, a young black prisoner sits in his divorce from Katherine dingy cell, staring at the shadow of Aragon, Annethe window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's execution for adulterydying sun rays. At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to a chair and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces electrocuted for the much longed for birth rape of a male heirwhite girl, who later committed suicide. This time, the story He is resigned to his fate; it is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughterfutile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, Mary. Mary's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce love between a black man and she is treated terribly by a father under the influence of the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck white woman was never going to have a happy ending in the middle of these tumultuous eventsa small town filled with small-minded people. [[Lady Mary The Mercy Seat by Lucy WorsleyElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing A Gathering of Ghosts by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisKaren Maitland]]===
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You are a lass of twenty eight. PluckyWitchcraft, penniless the supernatural and in Regency era London the race is on will 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 - survive at all costs collide in a fiesty noble eager to save you story that never shies away from a life alone, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventurethe darker side of human nature. When it comes to suitors thoughThe land is unhappy, you'll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty old spirits want revenge and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or famine is kindling a resurgence of the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Cravenold faith. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way As fear rises, it's clear this isn't going is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to be an easy decision.ignore that something rotten has taken root.The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are blowing in on a wind of change. [[My Lady's Choosing A Gathering of Ghosts by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisKaren Maitland|Full Review]] <!-- Mayfield Syson -->
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In eighteenth century LondonOn a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand, sisters Fitzgeralda family of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a home. When a ship appears, Constance they feel that their wishes have been granted and Verity their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are changed forever swiftly dashed when they become entwined with the Fowler family - and charged with protecting a mysterious childvulnerable boy disappears. Fast forward to the London of 2015, As both settlers and newcomers come together in the sisters are still waiting - with no way of knowing if search for the boy is alive or dead. Far awaychild, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal lifethey uncover far, but also forces them to keep a secret far more than they were looking for two hundred years. As those years pass by, – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who were granted immortality find that inhabit it's far from a blessing - with true darkness emerging in the absence of death. [[The Parentations Mr Peacock's Possessions by Kate MayfieldLydia Syson|Full Review]]
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===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Story Keeper by David LawsAnna Mazzola]]===
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I've played Neville Chamberlain in publicAudrey, you know – a full one-line in a ''Beyond the Fringe'' sketchcomplex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, where he says he has a piece to be more than what everyone expects of paper her, escapes from Hitlerthe straightjacket of her home. I then proceeded to prove it was a paper bagWhere every action, in factevery thought, every yearning is controlled by blowing it up and immediately bursting it. That is what that paper was to many – the indicator of a lot of hot airher father, and who only leading once in his life threw caution to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anyway. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with the Nazis, wind and this book opens with the first-person reportage of one such man, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain that he should not sign the Sudetenland awaymarried way beneath him for love. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely – leaving Now a grand-daughterwidower and remarried, Emmahe has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, at Cambridge but under a cloud of ignominywhat is proper, to pick the last, barest threads bastion of the story up and see just doing what did happen to himis expected. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Story Keeper by David LawsAnna Mazzola|Full Review]]
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===[[Kin The Butcher's Daughter by Snorri KristjanssonVictoria Glendinning]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)Fiction|Crime (Historical)Fiction]]
Unnthor Reginsson The Tudor era is the uncrowned king 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 powerful, with so many to choose from that the valley; retired Viking farmer well never seems to run dry and rumoured owner the characters are often those high up in the circles of a large hoard of goldpower, or those prepared to do anything to get there. He This book, however, is gathering his clantotally different. Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes of Agnes Peppin, a grand reunion after ten years of absenceyoung, poor woman. It is time for strengthening family bondsAs a woman she can either marry, feastingor join a convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at all, telling tall tales and remembering shared historyshe is sent to join the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey. [[Kin The Butcher's Daughter by Snorri KristjanssonVictoria Glendinning|Full Review]]
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===[[Templar Silks Silence in the Desert by Elizabeth ChadwickDavid Longridge]]===
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''Templar Silks'' is a great example of historical fiction done well. It's a fictitious account As the shadow of William Marshal's time in Jerusalem during the late 1100s during a brief spell of calm before Second World War descends upon the death of King Baldwin to leprosy planet, four people are explored in 1185. Elizabeth Chadwick has written a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in his life for lack tale of researchlove and friendship. In this book she goes back to fill Henri, fulfilling a family tradition in joining the gaps having spent time studying this particular period of his life. Her main problemForeign Legion, Bill, as she acknowledges arriving at the end Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his beliefs with those of the bookhis upbringing, is that virtually nothing is known of Marshal's time in Jerusalem. We know when and why he wentElisabeth, we know who crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil. As the major power players werewar rages, these men are tested like never before, we know when he came back with trust, loyalty and love leading to decisions that is about it. So understandably, this book is probably more fiction than history but it is brilliantly written none the lessaffect both their lives and those all around them. [[Templar Silks Silence in the Desert by Elizabeth ChadwickDavid Longridge|Full Review]]
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===[[Revenge Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Mitchell & MitchellAlison Weir]]===
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''Revenge'' opens with the news that Charles Stuart is to return When it comes to Jane Seymour, the throne as Charles II third wife of England. A young woman, Ruth CourtneyHenry VIII, popular opinion is returning home divided. Some see her as a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in the king's eyes. Others view her familyas a pious and God-fearing woman who brought calm and stability into Henry's farmhouselife following his turbulent marriage to Anne Boleyn. Perhaps both sides are true, excited at the prospect of a new Kingto an extent. She arrives homeIn ''The Haunted Queen, however'' the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, to find her home ablaze author and surrounded historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a Queen haunted by renegade soldiers, supporters the shadow of Cromwell, her family nowhere to be founda formidable predecessor. [[Revenge Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Mitchell & MitchellAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[The Baghdad Clock In Gold's Name by Shahad Al RawiMarcus Dalrymple]]===
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''The Baghdad Clock'' is It was about 1509 when a tale series of two friends growing up during mystical events foreshadowed the first end of the Aztec Empire and second Iraqi warthe inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlers. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism to illustrate Some thought the displacement felt Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially a decent man, particularly by a young girl and her neighbourhoodthe standards of the time. The novel introduces us to He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on the various characters surrounding force, but at the protagonist. They are full age of life twenty three he believed that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and yet never seem to add anything convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from the central narrativelocal religions which required human sacrifices. Rawi He'd joined the army from a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, it he'd failed to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the Aztec gold and that any conversion would seem, has a problem with telling a storynot be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torture. [[The Baghdad Clock In Gold's Name by Shahad Al RawiMarcus Dalrymple|Full Review]]
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===[[The Coffin Path Industry of Human Happiness by Katherine ClementsJames Hall]]===
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Maybe you've heard 'The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a novel about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on the old coffin path that winds from the village music. It is about human beings being able to find music and magic in the moor top, the villagers only speak simplest of it in hushed tones - places. Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of how it's opening a foreboding place filled with evilgramophone company. Mercy Booth has lived there since birthHowever, their ambition and shehubris soon puts them on a course towards London's always loved the grand house underworld. They will ascend broken and its isolation, but a recurrence of strange events begins to unsettle her. From objects disappearing through to a shadowy presence sensed in the house, mysteries come to light that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing long-buried secretstheir lives changed forever. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasp? [[The Coffin Path Industry of Human Happiness by Katherine ClementsJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Walking Wounded The Spirit Photographer by Sheila LlewellynJon Michael Varese]]===
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David Reece Jon Michael Varese's debut novel was called up inspired by the life story of the real-life father of spirit photography, William H. Mumler. His fictional stand-in 1941 here is Edward Moody, who was a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and sent to fight now owns his own photography studio in BurmaBoston. On his return in 1946Moody is dismissive of spiritualism, he finds a return yet considers himself to civilian life quite beyond him and, after be doing a brawl, is sent service to the bereaved by fabricating family photographs in which the ghost of a military psychiatric hospitaldeparted loved one appears. There, he is treated by Daniel CarterThis involves getting hold of an image of the loved one and superimposing it on the negative being developed, a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him so that talking therapies can work with men like David, but who is working it seems to appear hazily in a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such as ECT and lobotomythe background. Looking back from today's high-tech perspective, it'Walking Wounded'' follows both men as they both try s hard to come see how anyone could have been fooled, but suffering people in desperate situations often want to terms with traumatic experiences and find a place in a world moving on from WWIIbelieve; the same goes for séances. [[Walking Wounded The Spirit Photographer by Sheila LlewellynJon Michael Varese|Full Review]]
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