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THE LOST HISTORY OF DREAMS
By: Kris Waldherr
Atria Books
April 2019
On Sale: April 9, 2019
320 pages
ISBN: 1982101016
EAN: 9781982101015
Kindle: B07GNT9ZPZ
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Suspense Gothic
A post-mortem photographer unearths dark secrets of the past that may hold the key to his future, in this captivating debut novel in the gothic tradition of Wuthering Heights and The Thirteenth Tale. All love stories are ghost stories in disguise. When famed Byronesque poet Hugh de Bonne is discovered dead of a heart attack in his bath one morning, his cousin Robert Highstead, a historian turned post-mortem photographer, is charged with a simple task: transport Hughโs remains for burial in a chapel. This chapel, a stained glass folly set on the moors of Shropshire, was built by de Bonne sixteen years earlier to house the remains of his beloved wife and muse, Ada. Since then, the chapel has been locked and abandoned, a pilgrimage site for the rabid fans of de Bonneโs last book, The Lost History of Dreams. However, Adaโs grief-stricken niece refuses to open the glass chapel for Robert unless he agrees to her bargain: before he can lay Hugh to rest, Robert must record Isabelleโs story of Ada and Hughโs ill-fated marriage over the course of five nights. As the mystery of Ada and Hughโs relationship unfolds, so does the secret behind Robertโs own marriageโincluding that of his fragile wife, Sida, who has not been the same since the tragic accident three years ago, and the origins of his own morbid profession that has him seeing things he shouldnโtโthings from beyond the grave. Kris Waldherr effortlessly spins a sweeping and atmospheric gothic mystery about love and loss that blurs the line between the past and the present, truth and fiction, and ultimately, life and death.
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