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Hazardous Spirits brilliantly captures a young woman's world unsettled by mediums and spirits, revealing the devastating secrets that ghosts from the past can tell when given the voice to do so. "Equal parts lush Gothic mystery and delicately wrought 1920s domestic drama, Hazardous Spirits is a riveting exploration of the unknowable - whether it's ghosts, spirits, or the people we love most." - Tara Isabella Burton, author of The World Cannot GiveIn 1920s Edinburgh, Scotland, Evelyn Hazard is a young, middle-class housewife living the life she's always expected - until her husband, Robert, upends everything with a startling announcement: he can communicate with the dead.. . The couple is pulled into the spiritualist movement - a religious society of mediums and psychics that emerged following the mass deaths of the Spanish flu and First World War - and Evelyn's carefully composed world begins to unravel.
About the Author
Anbara Salam is half-Palestinian and half-Scottish, and grew up in London. She has a PhD in Theology and now lives in Oxford, UK.
