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Title Statement | The birthing house / Christopher Ransom. |
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Author | Ransom, Christopher |
Publication | New York: St. Martin's Press, 2009. |
Edition | 1st U.S. ed. |
Extent of Item | 308 p. |
ISBN | 9780312385842 0312385846 |
Other Number | 1962127 |
Summary | In this psychological thriller with supernatural overtones, a young couple, Conrad and Joanna Harrison, attempt to save their marriage by starting anew in a rural turn-of-the-century former birthing house. One day when Jo is away at work, the former owner bequeaths a photo album that belongs to the house. Thumbing through these antique photos of miserable midwives and pregnant girls in their nineteenth-century dresses, Conrad is chilled to the bone: staring back at him with a countenance of rage is his own wife. Thus begins a story of possession, sexual obsession and, ultimately murder, as a centuries old crime is re-enacted in the present, with devastating consequences. |
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By Topic | Married people--Fiction |
Haunted houses--Fiction | |
By Genre | Occult fiction |
Suspense fiction |