Wild Talent: a Novel of the Supernatural

By Eileen Kernaghan

Subjects: Madame Blavatsky; Alexandra David Neel; spiritualism; theosophy; London; Paris; decadent artists; nineteenth century occult

Description: The year is 1888. Jeannie Guthrie, a sixteen year old Scottish farmworker, must learn to deal with a dangerous talent. Believing that she has unintentionally killed her ne’er-do-well cousin, she flees to London, where she is befriended by the free-spirited and adventurous Alexandra David, and introduced to Madame Helena Blavatsky’s famous salon. Wild Talent 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