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Molly was fifteen when she began working with the dead...
It is 1856 and Spiritualism is at the height of its popularity. Molly Pinner has left behind her childhood in the Preston slums and inherited her late aunt Florrie's mantle as Preston's most successful medium. It soon becomes clear that her aunt was something far more cunning than a magnet for the spirits of the dead, but Molly puts aside her qualms and takes well to her new trade.
Molly's relationship with her oldest friend, Jenny, is jeopardized when she begins a passionate affair with local businessman William Hamilton. Before she knows it, Molly finds herself married to a man she cannot love, and pregnant with a child she does not want. In desperation, she makes a decision that will cast her relationship with William in a completely new light.
Trapped and traumatized, and longing to regain her friendship with Jenny, Molly is about to receive a blow that will turn her life upside down. It seems Aunt Florrie lied about more than just her ability to commune with the dead: a truth hidden for years is about to emerge, and it will threaten not only Molly's livelihood, but her very life.
Cover the Mirrors is a dark and zesty historical novel of distorted truths and suppressed Victorian desires.
Praise for Cover the Mirrors
"Lush and evocative: a spellbinding debut"
(Kim Wilkins)
"Booth's research is meticulous, she transports you entirely, engaging all the senses - one can feel, hear, smell and see her world...the writing is beautiful."
(hagsharlotsheroines.com)
"Precociously talented..."
(InStyle magazine)
"A human and raw story, fast-paced, evocative, colourful and distinctive. I recommend this book highly, read it and savour it.
(Textum Press)
"Cover the Mirrors...has all the trademarks of a Victorian potboiler - sex, death, class, hysteria - but Booth's wry narrative gives it a contemporary twist."
(Tara Hanks)
"Faye L. Booth is already a writer with a distinctive voice. I hope we will be hearing plenty more of it."
(Tim Stretton)
"...I found this an intriguing story with many twists and turns that came largely unexpectedly. The characters are well defined and believable
and the contrast in the lifestyle between [Molly and Jenny] is well drawn, with the result that the reader is given a very good idea of what life
must have been like for the haves and have-nots in the mill towns of northern England in the 19th Century."
(Historical Novel Society)
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