Author: JOHN HARWOOD
Title: The Ghost Writer
Description: Vintage, 2005. Paperback. Pp: 374. "The ghost story comes alive in a spellbinding first novel iola Hatherley was a writer of ghost stories in the 1890s whose work lies forgotten until her great-grandson, as a young boy in Mawson, Australia, learns how to open the secret drawer in his mother's room. There he finds a manuscript, and from the moment his mother catches him in the act, Gerard Freeman's life is irrevocably changed. What is the invisible, ever-present threat from which his mother strives so obsessively to protect him? And why should stories written a century ago entwine themselves ever more closely around events in his own life? Gerard's quest to unveil the mystery that shrouds his family, and his life, will lead him from Mawson to London, to a long-abandoned house and the terror of a ghost story come alive. A compelling, atmospheric and well-crafted story' Guardian An elegant homage to the Victorian ghost story tradition-Makes your flesh creep' The Times Irresistible-Structured like a haunted mansion' Observer Harwood is enviable skilled, handling pacing, delivery and plot with assurance and sly humour-The Ghost Writer has powerful moments and-a delicacy and tenderness that make it wonderfu. ISBN: 9780099460824. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780099460824
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Title: The Ghost Writer
Description: Vintage, 2005. Paperback. Pp: 374. "The ghost story comes alive in a spellbinding first novel iola Hatherley was a writer of ghost stories in the 1890s whose work lies forgotten until her great-grandson, as a young boy in Mawson, Australia, learns how to open the secret drawer in his mother's room. There he finds a manuscript, and from the moment his mother catches him in the act, Gerard Freeman's life is irrevocably changed. What is the invisible, ever-present threat from which his mother strives so obsessively to protect him? And why should stories written a century ago entwine themselves ever more closely around events in his own life? Gerard's quest to unveil the mystery that shrouds his family, and his life, will lead him from Mawson to London, to a long-abandoned house and the terror of a ghost story come alive. A compelling, atmospheric and well-crafted story' Guardian An elegant homage to the Victorian ghost story tradition-Makes your flesh creep' The Times Irresistible-Structured like a haunted mansion' Observer Harwood is enviable skilled, handling pacing, delivery and plot with assurance and sly humour-The Ghost Writer has powerful moments and-a delicacy and tenderness that make it wonderfu. ISBN: 9780099460824. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780099460824
Price: EUR 7.50 = appr. US$ 8.15 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 1975630
- Book number: 1975630
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