James Hutchison, a doctor on the west coast of Scotland, takes into his house a consumptive young man called Domhnall MacDiarmid on the eve of the Second World War because MacDiarmid, a fisherman, appears to have remarkable psychic gifts. With a psychoanalyst friend from St Andrews, Hutchison decides to hold seances with his protege. The doctor's niece Alison, who will succeed him in his practice, spends most of each summer with her uncle. But that summer she falls in love with Domhnall, and is drawn into the remarkable and sometimes terrifying paranormal phenomena surrounding him, with the local minister publicly accusing Dr Hutchison of helping to raise the dead. Heavenly Pursuits is not fantasy, but a new genre of fiction, with Lorn Macintyre drawing on his own experiences through sitting with mediums, and on his knowledge of psychic literature, to create a gripping and ultimately tragic story.
- ISBN10 1849233837
- ISBN13 9781849233835
- Publish Date 30 January 2009
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 June 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher FeedARead.com
- Imprint YouWriteOn.com
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 200
- Language English