The Fortunes of Olivia Richmond out now
The perfect Hallowe’en read has hit the shelves! Louise Davidson’s deliciously creepy Victorian Gothic story, THE FORTUNES OF OLIVIA RICHMOND, is out now!
Available in special limited edition hardback, ebook and audio book, this brilliant debut novel has been described as “Jane Eyre meets The Night Circus”, and has everything that makes for a great Victorian sensation novel – a spooky old house, dark secrets, vengeful villagers, a seemingly innocent ingenue and monsters lurking in the shadows…
A dark and twisting mystery, it’s a coming-of-age story with a difference. It explores the supernatural world of tarot and fortune telling, as well as giving an insight into the life of women during the late 1800s.
Set in Norfolk in 1891, the plot centres on disgraced governess Julia Pearlie, who comes to Mistcoate House to take up a role teaching 17-year-old Olivia Richmond. She soon discovers why locals call Olivia “the Mistcoate Witch” — her ghost-like appearance, accompanied by chilling rumours of her skill in tarot-reading and fortune telling. Olivia’s brother, Dr Richmond, attributes her behaviour to “girlish fantasy” and is looking to Julia to put a stop to it. But when it emerges that Olivia seems to know something of Julia’s own dark history — a past that she desperately hoped she had left behind — Julia begins to wonder if supernatural forces could be at play.
