A Superior Spectre
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Narrateur(s):
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Paul English
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Eloise Oxer
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Auteur(s):
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Angela Meyer
À propos de cet audio
A highly accomplished debut novel about our capacity for curiosity - and our dangerous entitlement to it - which reminds us the scariest ghosts aren’t those that go bump in the night but those that are born and create a place for themselves in the human soul.
Jeff is dying. Haunted by memories and grappling with the shame of his desires, he runs away to remote Scotland with a piece of experimental tech that allows him to enter the mind of someone in the past. Instructed to use it only three times, Jeff - self-indulgent, isolated and deteriorating - ignores this advice.
In the late 1860s, Leonora lives a contented life in the Scottish Highlands, surrounded by nature, her hands and mind kept busy. Contemplating her future and the social conventions that bind her, a secret romantic friendship with the local laird is interrupted when her father sends her to stay with her aunt in Edinburgh - an intimidating, sooty city; the place where her mother perished. But Leonora’s ability to embrace her new life is shadowed by a dark presence that begins to lurk behind her eyes, and strange visions that bear no resemblance to anything she has ever seen or known....
©2018 Angela Meyer (P)2018 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd