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1993: Students clear out an old house and find something they never could have imagined…
1993: Students clear out an old house and find something they never could have imagined…
Broke student Alex Lane joins a team clearing out Solace House, a Victorian mansion bequeathed to the university by a reclusive hoarder called Flayne. The other students are a mixed bunch, but Alex quickly falls into a close friendship with the lively, redheaded Ella.
When the crew begins sorting through piles of junk, they stumble upon Flayne’s journals, in which he details his obsession with his missing mother, his discovery of a place called Bewise, and – most mysteriously – his belief in
another realm lying parallel to ours, along with coded instructions as to how it might be reached.
As the students delve deeper into the house’s secrets, one of them becomes obsessed with deciphering Flayne’s
strange opus and its promise of another world… and they may be willing to sacrifice everything, and everyone, to get there.
England
Locations are vague but deliberately so – what we experience here is a sprawling, labyrinthine Victorian mansion, with themes of isolation and haunting.
The mansion is located along the coast somewhere in England – the town is sleepy and remote and hardly anyone comes here….
The author did a lot of research into Victorian asylums, including the Mid Wales Hospital and London’s Bethlem Royal Hospital. So…..
Destination/location: England Author/guide: Will Maclean Departure Time: 1993
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