The Haunting of Alma Fielding

The Haunting of Alma Fielding

by Kate Summerscale
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/10/2020

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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 WATERS


London, 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 EDEMARIAM


APICK OF THE AUTUMN IN THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND THE GUARDIAN

ISBN:
9781408895436
9781408895436
Category:
Biography: general
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-10-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Kate Summerscale

Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestseller, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008, the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and adapted into a major ITV drama.

Her first book, the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award.

Her third book, Mrs Robinson's Disgrace, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Kate Summerscale was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010. She lives in London.

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