Ghostwalk
Author(s): Rebecca Stott
The son of a reclusive historian finds his mother's drowned body in the tributary of the River Cam that runs through her garden. She is clutching a glass prism. Elizabeth Vogelsang's magnum opus, a book on Isaac Newton's alchemy, is incomplete. Lydia Brooke, a writer friend of the dead historian, returns to Cambridge to the funeral. It is five years since she has seen Elizabeth's son, Cameron Brown, with whom she has had an intermittent love affair that began years earlier. Cambridge, she discovers, is in the midst of an upsurge of attacks by animal rights extremists. Cameron, who, as a neuroscientist uses animal experimentation, has been targeted. Cameron asks Lydia to act as a paid ghostwriter in the completion of his mother's book, Alchemist. Lydia agrees to the proposal and moves into Elizabeth's strange house, a triangular shaped studio on the banks of the Cam. Soon Lydia finds herself entangled, not only with Cameron, but also with a four-hundred year-old murder mystery, a network of 17th century alchemists and a ghostly figure intent on disrupting her work.
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Reprinted in hardback Paperback to include Reading Group Notes 'A beautifully written book, mixing a compelling contemporary love story and a fascinating historical investigation, with Isaac Newton and alchemy playing a crucial role. The mystery at the novel's centre is audacious, convincing, and will make readers think anew about what history is' Iain Pears, Author of An Instance of the Fingerpost 'Most impressive' Observer '[Rebecca Stott] has scholarly authority and imaginative sparkle mesmerizing' New York Times Book Review 'An intricate tale of love, science, ghosts, history, secrets and lies beautifully written and extensively researched an eerily compelling read' Time Out 'Stott's prose has...poetic brilliance...Ghostwalk is a pacy...thriller with some creepy moments' The Herald
Shortlisted for Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2008.
"A creepy, unputdownable book" GOOD BOOK GUIDE
Rebecca Stott is a writer and broadcaster. She writes both fiction and non-fiction, is affiliated to the Cambridge history of science department and is Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at UEA. Her work, in radio writing, fiction and non-fiction, weaves together history, literature and the history of science. She is the author of the non-fiction book Darwin and the Barnacle.
General Fields
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- : Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- : 0.24494
- : 01 February 2008
- : 198mm X 129mm X 22mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Rebecca Stott
- : Paperback
- : 11-Sep
- : English
- : 823.92
- : 352
- : Modern fiction; Horror & ghost stories
