

It doesn't help that the setting is cold and bleak by itself: the novel is set in two places, both in Canada. It is therefore a story featuring a love triangle, and yet, the conflict is less along the lines of romance but more along the lines of murderous psychological thriller. This book presents the story of three people: Vienna Linn, who is a portraitist his wife Kala Murie, who is a spiritualist who believes in spirit photography and Peter Duvett, a photographer's assistant who is employed by Vienna, and who in turn becomes Kala Murie's lover.

Let me write a few words about what this book is about. I never expected that such an intricate and dense story would come out of this work. by Howard Norman on .įor a rather compact book, I was impressed at what this novel was able to accomplish. An edited version of this article was first published as Book Review: The Haunting of L.
