In 1915 Boston, a young woman grieving losses from the Titanic seeks solace from a medium while navigating family scandals, addiction, and romance.
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In 1915 Boston, a young woman grieving losses from the Titanic seeks solace from a medium while navigating family scandals, addiction, and romance.
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Katherine Howe, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane , returns with an entrancing historical novel set in Boston in 1915, where a young woman stands on the cusp of a new century, torn between loss and love, driven to seek answers in the depths of a crystal ball. Still reeling from the deaths of her mother and sister on the Titanic, Sibyl Allston is living a life of quiet desperation with her taciturn father and scandal-plagued brother in an eleg...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Romantic tension builds to a relationship with implied intimacy
Violence & gore
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A few scenes of mild violence
Profanity
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A few mild swear words
Substance use
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Opium use, addiction, and opium dens are a major theme
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No evidence found in available sources
Religious content
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References to Calvinist thinking of early Massachusetts settlers
Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Medium consultations, séances, scrying glass, and divination central
Political content
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Themes of pre-WWI change and science versus the supernatural
Self-harm / suicide
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No evidence found in available sources
Abuse & suffering
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Grief from Titanic deaths and family struggles with addiction
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