Author:John Harwood
Viola Hatherley was a writer of ghost stories in the 1890s whose work lies forgotten until her great-grandson, as a young boy in Mawson, Australia, learns how to open the secret drawer in his mother'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 strives so obsessively to protect him? And why should stories written a century ago entwine themselves ever more closely around events in his own life?
Gerard's quest to unveil the mystery that shrouds his family, and his life, will lead him from Mawson to London, to a long-abandoned house and the terror of a ghost story come alive.
Atmospheric debut novel
—— Emma Hagestadt , The IndependentA compelling, atmospheric and well-crafted story
—— GuardianAn elegant homage to the Victorian ghost story tradition... Makes your flesh creep
—— The TimesIrresistible... Structured like a haunted mansion
—— ObserverHarwood is enviable skilled, handling pacing, delivery and plot with assurance and sly humour... The Ghost Writer has powerful moments and...a delicacy and tenderness that make it wonderfully readable
—— Times Literary Supplement'One of the country's most widely read novelists
—— Sunday TimesJean Plaidy has already established herself among the foremost of current historical novelists
—— Birmingham MailJean Plaidy conveys the texture of various patches of the past with such rich complexity
—— Guardian'A grand recounting of the second Punic War...Durham's epic is truly a big, magnificent, sprawling story complete with a sizable cast of compelling characters, intricately drawn battle scenes and fluid, graceful prose'
—— Booklist (starred review)
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