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THE HAUNTING OF ALMA FIELDING - KATE SUMMERSCAL...

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 
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