![]() ![]() She then encounters Ben, an old family friend who lost his first wife to illness, and to whom Sybil was attracted years ago. Sybil is drawn into visits to a table-turning medium, where she tries to make contact with her lost relatives in the afterworld. Sibyl has reluctantly settled into the role of the head of household after her mother's death, but feels as if much of the world is passing her by. ![]() The year is 1915 and Sybil is living a quiet life of desperation with her father and wastrel brother in an elegant townhouse by the river in Boston, but they are still reeling from the deaths of Sibyl's mother and sister on the Titanic. ![]() Katherine Howe, author of the "magical" debut novel, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, returns with the mesmerizing The House of Velvet and Glass. ![]()
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