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Good Housekeeping's view...
September 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Josie Price is a cool and isolated narrator of life, who has spent much of her emotional energy on the Haddeley family. Following the death of Alice Haddeley, whom Josie loved almost as a daughter, Josie has lived a secondary life with Alice’s widower and new wife. She is entwined in their lives and in her career selling Egyptian tomb relics, but when an unsettlingly ambivalent boy appears claiming to be Alice’s son, he stirs up an emotional dust-storm. A fiercely powerful story of disturbing the past.
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Synopsis
The Ghost Lover by Gillian Greenwood
Josie Price has given up much of her life for the sake of the wealthy Haddeley family. She works with them, lives with them and knows their secrets. So when a young man, Luke, appears and claims, shockingly, to be the son of Kit Haddeley's late wife Alice, Josie tries to help the Haddeleys come to terms with the family ghosts they hoped had been laid to rest. But Luke's arrival casts shadows on both the past and the future. Above all it is the ghost of Alice Haddeley which hangs most heavily over the family. Through Luke, she seems to demand to be both mourned and revenged. With her intimate knowledge of the family past, it is Josie who holds the key to the mystery of Alice, and it is Josie, beset by guilt, who must resolve the destructive inheritance which Luke brings in his wake.
Reviews
'Greenwood skilfully marshals the flashbacks in her complicated plot and raises absorbing issues about how well we know people who are close to us and how difficult it is to assess strangers'
Times Literary Supplement
'Greenwood is a highly talented writer and never mre satisfying that when she is lacing differing emotional sensitivities through a superbly imagined and transfixing storyline. From long-lost relations to the difficulties of following in a spouse's footsteps ... she has woven wonders with this genuinely rich work'
Lady
'A fiercely powerful story of disturbing the past'
Good Housekeeping Praise for Gillian Greenwood
's first novel, Satisfaction -- --- 'A seriously good comedy of manners'
Melvyn Bragg
'An entertaining and beautifully constructed first novel ... It is completely satisfying. Take this book to the beach, but read it in the shade'
Observer
'This is obviously a story Greenwood wants to tell; she loves her troupe of players and has realised them all in a deft, careful way ... a gentle, interesting tale and an accomplished debut'
Evening Standard
'With deft plotting, a light touch and plenty of writerly observation about modern mores, Greenwood delivers an entertaining first novel'
Guardian
'Greenwood slowly reveals, in careful, considered prose, the ever-changing dynamics of contentment, and discloses, with the help of a shocking twist, how happiness happens'
Daily Mail
'A fiercely powerful story of disturbing the past'
Good Housekeeping
'Greenwood skilfully marshals the flashbacks in her complicated plot and raises absorbing issues about how well we know people who are close to us and how difficult it is to assess strangers'
Times Literary Supplement
'Greenwood is a highly talented writer and never mre satisfying that when she is lacing differing emotional sensitivities through a superbly imagined and transfixing storyline. From long-lost relations to the difficulties of following in a spouse's footsteps ... she has woven wonders with this genuinely rich work'
Lady
'A fiercely powerful story of disturbing the past'
Good Housekeeping Praise for Gillian Greenwood
's first novel, Satisfaction -- --- 'A seriously good comedy of manners'
Melvyn Bragg
'An entertaining and beautifully constructed first novel ... It is completely satisfying. Take this book to the beach, but read it in the shade'
Observer
'This is obviously a story Greenwood wants to tell; she loves her troupe of players and has realised them all in a deft, careful way ... a gentle, interesting tale and an accomplished debut'
Evening Standard
'With deft plotting, a light touch and plenty of writerly observation about modern mores, Greenwood delivers an entertaining first novel'
Guardian
'Greenwood slowly reveals, in careful, considered prose, the ever-changing dynamics of contentment, and discloses, with the help of a shocking twist, how happiness happens'
Daily Mail
'A fiercely powerful story of disturbing the past'
Good Housekeeping
About the Author
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Book Info
Format
Hardback
304 pages
Author
Gillian Greenwood
More books by Gillian Greenwood
Publisher
John Murray Publishers Ltd an imprint of John Murray General Publishing Division
Publication
date
6th August 2009
 Categories
 Family Drama
eBooks
ISBN
9780719568725
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