The Loneliness of the Time Traveller

By Erika Rummel

"It is a dreadful thing to be possessed, to be invaded by a spirit woman who commands your body and soul and looks out at the world through your eyes. It happened to me. Pray it will never happen to you."

Adele’s diary tells the story of her domination by the incubus Lynne, a serving girl in a London alehouse who died a violent death and commandeered Adele’s body for eight years. Can Adele be held responsible for Lynne’s crimes? Will the evil spirit return and renew her tyranny over Adele’s mind?

Lynne has moved on into the twenty-first century, but transmigration has left her emotions flat. Lynne is eager to go back to her first life and experience once more the passion she felt for her lover, Jack. To do so, she needs a channel to the past: the manuscript of Adele’s diaryif only she can find it.

A time-slip novel set in contemporary Los Angeles and eighteenth-century London, The Loneliness of the Time Traveller is a story of love, crime, and adventure combined with fantasy, a little bit of Jane Austen–style irony, and a healthy serving of social criticism.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
• Release date: Jun 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9781771338806

Erika Rummel

Erika Rummel has taught at Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Toronto. She has published numerous books on Renaissance history and is the author of nine historical novels. A recipient of the prestigious Getty fellowship and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Renaissance Society of America, she divides her time between Toronto and Los Angeles.

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