From the bestselling author of and comes an even more accomplished and entirely surprising new novel. Angelica is a spellbinding victorian ghost story, an intriguing literary and psychological puzzle, and a meditation on...From the bestselling author of and comes an even more accomplished and entirely surprising new novel. Angelica is a spellbinding victorian ghost story, an intriguing literary and psychological puzzle, and a meditation on marriage, childhood, memory, and fear. The novel opens in London, in the 1880s, with the barton household on the brink of collapse.