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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 A PICK OF THE AUTUMN IN THE TIMES SUNDAY TIMES OBSERVER AND THE GUARDIAN

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