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Scottish BookHazardous Spirits: Shortlisted for Fiction Book of the Year at Scotland’s National Book Awards (Paperback)
Author: Anbara Salam
£9.95
ScotlandSet in EdinburghGrief & LossHistorical RomanceWitchcraft
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Add for £10Hazardous Spirits follows Evelyn Hazard in 1923 Edinburgh as her comfortable life unravels when her husband claims he can speak to the dead and they are drawn into the post war spiritualist movement. As secrets and suspicion deepen, she must question what is real and who she can trust. This book is for readers of atmospheric historical mysteries.
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Why we chose this book
Hazardous Spirits is an atmospheric, emotionally rich novel we admired for its restraint, gothic mood, and thoughtful exploration of grief, belief, and intimacy.
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Edinburgh, 1923. Evelyn Hazard lives a life shaped by comfort and routine, her days steady and predictable. That balance fractures when her husband Robert makes a quiet, astonishing claim: he can speak with the dead.
Drawn into the spiritualist circles that have taken hold in the aftermath of war and pandemic, the couple move through a city marked by grief and longing. For Evelyn, the new world opening around them brings unease rather than consolation. As séances and whispered testimonies multiply, memories she has kept carefully buried begin to stir.
The question at the centre of her marriage becomes impossible to avoid. Is Robert deceiving others, deceiving himself, or touching something that should remain hidden. Each possibility carries its own danger.
This is historical, gothic literary fiction attentive to belief and doubt, set in an Edinburgh alive with uncertainty, where the past presses close and truth is never safely contained.
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