'A must for James admirers and everyone else who appreciates fine writing and an original story'

A convincing, compelling and icy reworking of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, in which Sallie, an American girl obsessed by the subject of her PhD thesis, quits university to take on the job of temporary nanny in an English country house. Sallie is so manipulated by words, so deluded by her own emotional fantasies that she interferes with James's original narrative and screws it into terrifying reality.

'Chilling... Once you have read A Jealous Ghost, I'm afraid you won't be able to get it out of your head. Ever? Quite possibly'

'Irresistibly readable and, finally, terrifying. Wilson turns the screw in masterly fashion'

'Gruesomely entertaining ... intellectually fascinating'

'A tragi-comedy of elegant and unrelieved blackness'

'Erudite and compelling... Genuinely hard to put down'

'Wilson has always been a brilliant storyteller, who ­- unlike many of his no less famous contemporaries - is incapable of ever writing a boring line... Masterly... Always enthralling... Here is a book one races through, so eager is one to know what happens next... In [Wilson's] hands, as in James's, each turn of the screw succeeds in intensifying the reader's unease'