The successful artist Henry Chester, prim and righteous, tormented by remorse and memories of his mother, finds his ideal - a young girl from a poor family. His past is full of dark secrets, but who would suspect a respectable Victorian gentleman? Effie will become the ideal wife - unspoiled, pure, a perfect model - a ghost girl, a beggar girl from a Pre-Raphaelite painting. Effie, the ideal wife, is lonely, sick, weak and sensitive. She is looking for love and friends - and finds: a careless and cruel lover, her husband’s rival; sorceress - madam from a popular brothel; and Madame's daughter, ten-year-old Martha, who was killed in this brothel many years ago. Martha and Effie, ghostly maidens, and their common mother intend to take revenge on the murderer - and revenge will be sweet, painful and deadly. In the Victorian Gothic novel Sleep, Pale Sister by Joanne Harris, reality is shrouded in a ghostly haze and indistinguishable from dark fantasies, love is destructive, and revenge is inevitable and terrible. What do we know about ghosts? What do we know about people? Joanne Harris knows a lot. In 2009, the book was republished under the title “Dark Angel.”