The Ghost Writer

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Viola Hatherley was a writer of ghost stories in the 1890s. Yet the eerie presences in her tales of bohemian London, of aspiring young
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women and struggling artists, are not musty apparitions rattling chains. An anpnyxnous portrait, a green velvet gown, a;porcelain doll, even-ah entry in library catalogue can open the way to nightmare.
But her work is forgotten until her great-grandson^ as a young boy in Mawsonv Australia, learns how to Q,pen the secret dra^ik in his niother'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 strive? so obsessiyely to protect him? And why should stories wfitten a cetîtury ago entwine thcrçiselves ever rtijbre closely around eveftts in his/awn, life?
More manuscripts Come to light, hinting at his. mother's role in a Catastrophe whose outlines he can only glimpse. A mysterious... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Viola Hatherley was a writer of ghost stories in the 1890s. Yet the eerie presences in her tales of bohemian London, of aspiring young
- ¦¦ ^ . ¦ 'h ' I
women and struggling artists, are not musty apparitions rattling chains. An anpnyxnous portrait, a green velvet gown, a;porcelain doll, even-ah entry in library catalogue can open the way to nightmare.
But her work is forgotten until her great-grandson^ as a young boy in Mawsonv Australia, learns how to Q,pen the secret dra^ik in his niother'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 strive? so obsessiyely to protect him? And why should stories wfitten a cetîtury ago entwine thcrçiselves ever rtijbre closely around eveftts in his/awn, life?
More manuscripts Come to light, hinting at his. mother's role in a Catastrophe whose outlines he can only glimpse. A mysterious benefactor,,and the prospect of union with, his elusive; penfrîéhd Alice, seeni to protnisë fairy-tale rewards, even as the sense of a monstrous pattern Completing itself ground him grows stronger.
In John Harwood's astonishingly assure^ first novel, Gerard's quest to unveil the mystery that shrouds his family, and his life, will lead hini from Mawson to London, to a long-abandoned house and the terror of a ghost story come alive. Darkly comic, fraught with the perils of reading. The Ghost Writer draws ,us into a labyrinth where spellbinding horrbr lurks ;at every turn. Vissza