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In any case, it’s just a sad-feeling book in many respects. But it’s also a masterclass in atmosphere, unreliable narration, limited perspective, deft characterisation, quiet horror and slow-building tension. There’s a weight of terrible inevitability to the final denouement, the revelations losing none of their power despite the fact they should have been obvious throughout. The book is about psychic phenomena, mediums, religion. It is about faith, and beliefs. It is also about grief, obsession and exploitation, and about ambition, lies and deception. After following his wife and discovering what she was up to, he is immersed into the world of spiritualism, even donning the name The Spirit Engineer, his name a marriage of his two sides. The once skeptic is determined to show others the proof he has of the spirit world being real. Can he prove his theories or will he discover more than he bargained for before all is said and done? An excerpt from another letter, sent four days before he committed suicide, follows a similar theme: However, it all starts to unravel, leaving the reader not knowing what is real and what is not, those who believe, and those who only believe they believe, until the final part, in which (no spoilers) everything is explained, to great effect.
Kathleen’s family are absolutely clear that she was in no way a seeker of the spotlight later in life; her public performances having switched from communion with the dead to ballroom dancing with her husband at company functions.This is a fiendishly clever tale of ambition, deception, and power, engineered by some excellent To celebrate, we are giving you a sneak peek at the inspirational quotes you will be able to find inside this small but beautiful book 🥰🎊
There are few deaths so horrible as dying from cyanide poisoning, so while William may have found it easy to acquire the means for his own death, perhaps we can assume he didn’t realise how arduous his journey to the afterlife would be. Either that or his pain was already so acute, he didn’t care. We can only speculate, using a few scraps of evidence. I suspect there may be more and the College of Psychic Studies in London apparently holds some of William’s letters, though more recent correspondence to his family and to myself has been inconclusive on the matter. I would love to see what they hold in their archives. Belfast, 1914. Two years after the sinking of the Titanic, high society has become obsessed with spiritualism. In their collective grief they are attempting to reach their departed through séances.I was saying only yesterday how receiving proofs is one sure fire way of reading books I may never have come across. If I’m honest, ghosts- and spirits-type stories are not normally a genre I would levitate towards (see what I did there?!), but I can tell you that I am so PLEASED The Spirit Engineer found it’s way to me.
Let me prepare you – this book is gripping, thrilling, and mind-twisting. To know that it’s based on a true story makes it even more interesting. I was completely hooked and couldn’t put this book down until I was done (and yes, I read it with the lights all on).Not surprisingly, in a book which delves into the afterlife, the epilogue is titled 'the Beginning'. I love story's like this, a gripping interesting read that has led me to YouTube videos on William's real life. That is, until one day his wife is seen taking part to try and recover what she has lost and William may finally start to believe that maybe the veil between the living and the dead is more tangible if only he can figure out just how it all works so that he may lay claim to being The Spirit Engineer. There is nothing in the book which would entice this reviewer to a seance. It's a grotesque abuse of the vulnerable and there are many vulnerable characters in this particular story.
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