This new novel is a real heart-squeezer. Beautiful one of a kind and perfectly titled' - Matt
Berninger of The National 'An overwhelmingly beautiful love story. This book will make you
cry' - Jonathan Safran Foer author of Everything is Illuminated 'Genuinely powerful' - The
Irish Times A gorgeous modern love story about the lives that change us and the loves that
haunt us. Set over twenty years August Thompson's debut Anyone's Ghost will break your heart.
It took three car crashes to kill Jake. The lonely life of fifteen-year-old Theron David Alden
is transformed when he meets Jake. Older cooler more confident and startlingly beautiful
Jake likes the same bands the same drugs and has the same drive to oblivion. Over the course
of two decades Theron and Jake get high drift apart and are brought hurtling back together
until a final collision tears them apart forever. Theron wants Jake and he wants to be Jake.
But is Jake brave enough to want him back? 'You know those books that you take with you
everywhere? That you won't stop talking about to your friends? That bring it all back? That
change you? Anyone's Ghost is that book' - Junot Diaz author of The Brief Wondrous Life of
Oscar Wao Perfect for fans of A Little Life and One Day.
