The late 30's - a psychical researcher investigates a suburban housewife's links with the supernatural: fraud, genuine or both? The focus widens to the researcher himself, the bereavement-fed psychic movement and the growing influence of psychology as an explanatory tool. In the background, war is coming step by step. Some of this feels like padding and the mystery is not very mysterious but for me the main interest was the insights into working class life and mores.
(Tony Pratt - bwl 99 Winter 2021 ) |
