Beautiful and wilful, Elizabeth lives a privileged life as companion to her rich aunt in Bath and spends her leisure time swanning around in her open Porsche, all the while dreaming of being a femme fatale like a screen goddess from old Hollywood. Young and idealistic, Paul is a garden designer with debts and a self-destructive wife and whose principal ambition is simply to survive.
Two séances, two love stories and two killers linked across time by a single journal. In 1990’s Notting Hill, Theo, the painfully shy owner of a London bookshop discovers it just before attending a séance with a girl with whom he is secretly in love. Séance is both an intriguing murder mystery and a haunting love story.