The Haunting of Alma Fielding by Kate Summerscale

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The Haunting of Alma Fielding by Kate Summerscale

€12.50
ISBN:
9781408895474
Author:
Kate Summerscale
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date:
2021
Format:
Paperback

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her s…

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The Haunting of Alma Fielding by Kate Summerscale

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE

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 EDEMARIAMA PICK OF THE AUTUMN IN THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND THE GUARDIAN

 

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