The Clairvoyant Countess

I simply love Dorothy Gilman. She has an absolutely lovely way with language and her characters are always so human yet somehow also just that little bit more - more conscientious, more thoughtful, more thought, more human - than the people one encounters in everyday life... Perhaps I'm a relic, but......more

I'm not sure what to say about this book... It is quaint, and charming, and truly comfortable. If it had been written today it would have been put firmly into the paranormal mystery category, and it would have a much brasher heroine and be all around more of what we expect. But this book was written......more

Entertaining book featuring Madame Karitska who will make a believer out of any skeptic when it comes to things hard to understand in the psychic realm.......more

More than one cohesive story, this book is more like a chain of short stories loosely connected by common characters and a few events, rather like the old TV shows where each episode stood alone. But the book does not hand you the stories all nicely wrapped up in 22/44 minutes. The ending was abrupt......more

Just reread this book for the I-don't-know-how-many times (I entered 12 in the field provided for such things, but I suspect it's much more than that). I first read The Clairvoyant Countess when I was 12... I'd just come off my dystopia phase (plowing through every piece of classic dystopian literat......more