The Haunting of L.

By Howard Norman,

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The final book in Howard Norman's Canadian Trilogy: a novel about spirit-photographs, adultery, and greed

It is 1927. Young Peter Duvett has accepted a job as an assistant to the elusive portraitist, Vienna Linn, in the remote town of Churchill, Manitoba. Peter's life is about to change in ways he…

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1 author picked The Haunting of L. as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is an unexpected gift from a writer with solid literary credentials for his novels The Museum Guard, and The Birdwatcher.

It’s a young man’s romance that understands and presents love passionately, completely ill-advisedly, yet in the end, successfully. When our hero travels to western Canada he falls for a beauty with a creepy photographer husband hanging about.

She is a professional psychic and communicator with the dead who presents her discoveries to a mostly indifferent public. Meanwhile, her cynical, unloving husband finds and photographs scenes of shocking vehicle accident carnage for a mysterious tycoon in England with surprisingly…

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