Romance of Two Worlds

A young woman wasted by illness and despair is given a mysterious potion by the enigmatic Italian artist Raffaello Cellini, and what follows is a transcendent journey through celestial visions. She encounters angelic choirs, witnesses cosmic dramas, and finds her very soul restored as she traverses the boundary between the visible world and one far more luminous. Corelli's 1886 sensation blends spiritualist fantasy with passionate romance, capturing Victorian England's fevered obsession with the supernatural and the daring suggestion that salvation might come not from doctors but from elsewhere. This is a novel about resurrection before it is about anything else, about a woman who learns to live again by dying to the world she knew.