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Katherine Howe, author of a unusual New York Times bestseller The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, earnings with an entrancing chronological novel set in Boston in 1915, where a immature lady stands on a fork of a new century, ripped between detriment and love, driven to find answers in a inlet of a clear ball.
Still disorder from a deaths of her mom and sister on a Titanic, Sibyl Allston is vital a life of still recklessness with her taciturn father and scandal-plagued hermit in an superb city residence in Boston’s Back Bay. Trapped in a universe over that she has no control, Sibyl flees for condolence to a parlor of a table-turning medium.
But when her hermit is unexpected kicked out of Harvard underneath puzzling resources and falls underneath a lean of a bizarre immature woman, Sibyl turns for assistance to psychology highbrow Benton Derby, notwithstanding a tacit tensions of their common past. As Benton and Sibyl work together to solve a harrowing mystery, their long-simmering hint flares to life, and they comprehend that there might be something even some-more enchanting between them than a medium’s scrying glass.
From a drug dens of Boston’s Chinatown to a prosperous salons of high society, from a behind alleys of colonial Shanghai to a decks of a Titanic, The House of Velvet and Glass weaves together prudent duration detail, distilled romance, and a final intolerable spin that will leave readers breathless.
Praise for The House of Velvet and Glass
“Richly atmospheric, The House of Velvet and Glass ecstatic me to a spin of a twentieth century and a universe changing as fast and irrevocably as a own. A means historian and storyteller, Katherine Howe has combined a vividly illusory universe that done me wish to postpone time, slow only a bit longer with a characters who live there, before a whole thing dead in a dark glass.”
—Brunonia Barry author of The Lace Reader and The Map of True Places
“The House of Velvet and Glass is an perplexing and insinuate family portrait, embellished opposite a backdrop of beautifully rendered tales of colonialist Shanghai, a mutilate of a Titanic, and upper-crust Boston dabblers in a suggestion universe in a nervous days preceding a Great War. I’d ask Katherine Howe for some-more than this, though it seems cross to ask that she spin a pages for me.”
—Lyndsay Faye, author of The Gods of Gotham and Dust and Shadow
“Katherine Howe follows adult her extraordinary entrance with The House of Velvet and Glass, a courteous tour into a realms of a abnormal that inhabits the source element with free palliate and charm. A totally interesting review peopled with characters who will haunt readers’ minds.”
—David Liss, author of The Twelfth Enchantment and A Conspiracy of Paper
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #77022 in Books
- Published on: 2012-04-10
- Released on: 2012-04-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.42 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 432 pages
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Buy new: $17.15
First tagged "family saga" by smudge09
More Detail Information tags: historical fiction, family saga, literary fiction, historical mystery
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