Lyndsay Faye- Raven
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Raven Helen Allan has always been haunted by an obsession with witchcraft. Since the death of her beloved mother, she has soothed herself by speaking words into spells and has found a self-destructive solace in transmuting the pain in her heart onto her flesh.
Raven spends an itinerant childhood first with a traveling theater troupe and then with a series of relatives before she finally lands in Baltimore with her laudenum-addled Aunt Berenice. There she finds a long-sought sense of belonging with the family of enslaved workers, especially the brilliantly odd youngest daughter Pym. But when the household is threatened with financial ruin, Raven must set out on her own.
She takes a job as a paid companion to Lenore, a delicate young invalid who lives with her handsome cousin Trevanion in a crumbling Maryland manor. Raven finds herself inexorably drawn to both Trevanion himself and the occult texts he studies in an effort to plumb the depths of both science and magic for a cure for Lenore. But as she gets closer to the two cousins, Raven discovers that the shadows of Moldavia Manor conceal dark, dangerous secrets...
Lyndsay Faye is the internationally bestselling author of eight critically acclaimed novels and two short story collections. She has been published in fifteen languages, nominated for two Edgar Awards, and received an American Library Association award for Best Historical Novel. A notable writer of Sherlock Holmes pastiches including Dust and Shadow and Observations by Gaslight, she also particularly enjoys upending classical literature, as in Jane Steele, which transforms Jane Eyre into a feminist serial killer. A true New Yorker in the sense that she was born elsewhere, Faye lives in Queens with her husband Nicholas and her cat Prufrock.
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