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A Ghost's Story: A Novel

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Description for A Ghost's Story: A Novel Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 234.
Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries seances and spiritualist meetings grew in popularity. One 'ghost' appeared more than any other: the Katie King spirit. A Ghost's Story presents the mysterious spirit writings and biographical outpourings of Katie King, this famous and enigmatic spirit celebrity. Is she a profound and curious consciousness guided into this realm by the faith of true believers, or the cheap trickery of parlour cheats and exploitative swindlers? Katie King is both, and more. This is the tale of a ghost's quest to understand human faith, loss and passion. It is also the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783780365
SKU
V9781783780365
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About Lorna Gibb
LORNA GIBB was born in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. She is a university lecturer and now lives in London. She is the author of Lady Hester: Queen of the East and West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West. A Ghost's Story is her first novel.

Reviews for A Ghost's Story: A Novel
'This multi-layered book is clever, delicious and full of memorable images. Long jet earrings hang like dark teardrops and Katie steals into a woman like a moth that had accidentally flown into a mouth and rested within, fluttering, delicate, vulnerable, only to be expelled seconds later. There are some wonderfully gothic descriptions of death - such ... Read more

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