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London, 1823. Mary Shelley's real-life friend Isabella Baxter Booth is seeing ghosts. Alexander Balfour will stop at nothing to be recognized as a genius in the emerging field of psychiatry and he thinks Isabella could be his key to fame. But as his own torments threaten to overwhelm Alexander, is he really the best judge of which way madness lies?
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Lesley McDowell is a literary critic for The Herald, The Scotsman and The Independent on Sunday. Her first novel was The Picnic (2007). Her second book, Between the Sheets: The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th-Century Women Writers, was shortlisted for the non-fiction prize in the 2011 Scottish Book Awards.
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London, 1823. Mary Shelley’s real-life friend Isabella Baxter Booth is seeing ghosts. Alexander Balfour will stop at nothing to be recognized as a genius in the emerging field of psychiatry and he thinks Isabella could be his key to fame. But as his own torments threaten to overwhelm Alexander, is he really the best judge of which way madness lies?
