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Playing the Ghost

By: Johanna Craven
Narrated by: Rebecca McKernan
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Australia, 1857.

Life is brutal on the goldfields of Castlemaine. With death around every corner, people are all too willing to believe in ghosts and embrace the spiritualism movement finding its way across the seas.

For Lucy Earnshaw and her husband Tom, their arrival in Australia is marred by unimaginable grief. In the wake of her loss, and amid a failing marriage, Lucy is drawn into the world of spiritualism and theater—and into the path of dashing young playwright, Will Browning.

Lucy’s new obsession leads her into the dark underbelly of the goldfields, a place where murder and thieving are rife, and no one can be trusted. And as she seeks happiness on the fringe of society, she finds herself entangled in a web of lies and corruption—one she may never escape from.

A historical novel of love, loss, and deception from the author of One of Us Buried and Forgotten Places.

©2022 Johanna Craven (P)2022 Johanna Craven
Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Romance Victorian Marriage Haunted
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You will feel the dry dust and heat . This listen/book will pull you in. Between the pain of losing their baby daughter and poverty that they live in. As her husband struggles to collect enough gold in the goldfields to feed them, Lucy finds herself pulled to the theatre and a handsome playwright as a means of escape. She finds a mystery but the guilt about being unfaithful to her husband, and angry at a community that has dashed her dreams. oh that ending ....

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