451 pages
English language
Published Nov. 14, 2008 by Harper Perennial.
451 pages
English language
Published Nov. 14, 2008 by Harper Perennial.
Alison Hart, a medium by trade, tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital road with her flint-hearted sidekick Colette, passing on messages from dead ancestors. But behind her plump, smiling persona is a desperate woman: the next life holds terrors she must conceal from his clients, and her own waking hours are plagued by the spirits of men from her past.
Alison Hart, a medium by trade, tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital road with her flint-hearted sidekick Colette, passing on messages from dead ancestors. But behind her plump, smiling persona is a desperate woman: the next life holds terrors she must conceal from his clients, and her own waking hours are plagued by the spirits of men from her past.