The Haunting of Alma Fielding : SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 Paperback / softback
by Kate Summerscale
Paperback / softback
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE ‘A page-turner with the authority of history’ PHILIPPA GREGORY‘As gripping as a novel.
An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read’ SARAH WATERSLondon, 1938.
Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Nandor Fodor – a Jewish-Hungarian refugee and chief ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical research – begins to investigate.
In doing so he discovers a different and darker type of haunting: trauma, alienation, loss – and the foreshadowing of a nation’s worst fears.
As the spectre of Fascism lengthens over Europe, and as Fodor’s obsession with the case deepens, Alma becomes ever more disturbed. With rigour, daring and insight, the award-winning pioneer of historical narrative non-fiction Kate Summerscale shadows Fodor’s enquiry, delving into long-hidden archives to find the human story behind a very modern haunting. ‘An empathetic, meticulous account of a spiritual unravelling; a tribute to the astonishing power of the human mind - but also a properly absorbing, baffling, satisfying detective story’ AIDA EDEMARIAMA PICK OF THE AUTUMN IN THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND THE GUARDIAN
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:16/09/2021
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- ISBN:9781408895474
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:16/09/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781408895474