The year is 1888. Jeannie Guthrie, a sixteen year old Scottish farmworker, is possessed of  a mysterious wild talent.  Convinced that she has unintentionally killed her ne’er-do-well cousin George,  Jeannie  flees to the anonymity of London. There she is befriended by the free-spirited Alexandra David and introduced to Madame Helena Blavatsky’s famous salon. Drawn reluctantly into the world of the occult and seemingly haunted by her cousin’s vengeful ghost, Jeannie must learn to control her dangerous talent in order to survive. Wild Talent: a novel of the supernatural  follows Jeannie and Alexandra from the late Victorian world of  spiritualists and theosophists; to the  fin de siècle Paris of  decadent artists anarchists and  esoteric cults; and finally to the perilous country of the Beyond. (Young adult/teen)
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