In 1920s Edinborough, Scotland, Evelyn Hazard is a young, middle-class
housewife living the life she's always expected--until her husband
Robert upends everything with a startling announcement: he can
communicate with the dead.
As the couple is pulled into the spiritualist movement--an underground,
occult society of ritual and magic that emerged following the mass
deaths of the Spanish Flu and First World War--Evelyn's carefully
composed world begins to unravel. And when long-held secrets from her
past threaten to come to the surface, presenting her with the prospect
of losing all she holds dear, Evelyn finds herself unable to avoid the
question: is the man she loves a fraud, a madman or--most
frighteningly--is he telling the truth?
Cloaked in a moody, beguiling backdrop of twentieth-century Scotland,
Anbara Salam's Hazardous Spirits brings a sparkling sense of period
detail and dry humor to the life of a young woman calibrating her place
in a changing world, and her shifting relationship with a man she
thought she knew.
