The Magician's Wife

To celebrate the recent launch of Lora’s new novel Second Sight and inspired by the psychic Jones cousins from our last episode we’re giving our listeners a free magic trick! In this bonus episode we present to you a brilliant illusion you can share with all your friends. We explain how you can use a special website to convince everyone that, just like the character from Lora’s novel, you also have the power of second sight.

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It is the summer of 1955, and the rugged mountains of Snowdonia, Wales, are about to become the centre of the scientific universe. A highly respected university mathematician discovers two thirteen-year-old cousins who seem to possess a genuine telepathic link. They can transmit thoughts through closed doors, and even at distances of over a hundred feet. Their abilities baffle university professors, and completely stump an expert magician. But were these boys truly gifted with supernatural powers, or had the experts been thoroughly outsmarted by a clever trick?

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Join Lora and Barry for a very special episode of The Magician’s Wife podcast, to celebrate the launch of Lora’s new novel, Second Sight, the sequel to The Magician’s Wife.

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During the summer of 1764, the mountains and forests of southern France run red with blood. A terrifying, oversized beast is slaughtering women and children, yet completely bypassing their flocks of sheep. Panic sweeps the nation, drawing the attention of none other than the king himself. But even royal hunters are powerless against the monster, and over a hundred people die before it is finally stopped. So was this horrific slaughter the work of a supernatural demon, an exotic animal, or a sadistic human?

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One June evening in Oslo, a gunshot suddenly rings out from a room in a luxury hotel. Armed police struggle to breach the door, but when they do, they find it double-locked from the inside. On the bed lies a young woman, dead from a single bullet to the head. The death has the initial appearance of a tragic suicide, until investigators look closer. The mysterious woman has no ID, the labels have been cut from all her clothes, and the serial number on her gun has been dissolved by acid. So who was she and, more importantly, who pulled the trigger?

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In the mist-shrouded Highlands of 17th-century Scotland, a farm labourer peers through a hole in a small, white stone. Through this pebble, he claims to see the future. He sees ships sailing across dry land. He sees a day when the people of the Highlands will be outnumbered by sheep. He even foresees a black rain that will bring unimaginable wealth to the city of Aberdeen, three hundred years in the future. Was Coinneach Odhar, the Brahan Seer, truly the “Scottish Nostradamus,” or was his legend a masterpiece of historical ventriloquism?

Plus, one year has passed since Barry made his own predictions for 2025, back in episode 13. We listen back to find out how accurate was our own “Scottish Nostradmaus”?

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In New York 1908, a husband and wife decorate their tree, only to find that a simple scratch from a pine needle carries a lethal curse. Four years earlier, in New Zealand, a family receives a visit from an assassin who has flown invisibly across the country to find them - and he isn’t Father Christmas.

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It is the night of 19th November, 1995. The sky over the small market town of Wem in Shropshire is glowing a violent orange. The historic Town Hall is burning to the ground. But amidst the roaring flames and falling timbers, a local photographer captures something that shouldn’t exist. Developing his film, he finds a clear, black-and-white image of a young girl, standing calmly in the heart of the inferno, staring directly at him. But was this a visitor from the grave, or a trick that fooled the experts for fifteen years?

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In the dimly lit clinics of the Philippines, psychic surgeons perform the impossible: with only their bare hands, they appear to plunge deep into a patient’s body, pulling out bloody, cancerous tumours before astonished onlookers. The skin is left unbroken, the wound sealed as if by a miracle. But is this a genuine medical marvel, a divine gift of healing, or could it instead be a very clever trick?

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In 1914, during a desperate retreat at the Battle of Mons, the British army is on the verge of heavy losses. But as the enemy closes in, a strange vision appears between the two armies: a host of shining angels and ghostly bowmen. The German advance inexplicably falters, and the British are saved. The legend of the Angel of Mons is born, becoming a beacon of hope for the nation. But did soldiers really witness a miracle, or was this famous story born not on the battlefield, but somewhere else entirely?

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