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The Haunting of Alma Fielding
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020
Taschenbuch von Kate Summerscale
Sprache: Englisch

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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, OBSERVER AND THE GUARDIAN
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, OBSERVER AND THE GUARDIAN
Über den Autor
Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and adapted into a major ITV drama. Her first book, the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award. Her third book, Mrs Robinson's Disgrace, was a Sunday Times bestseller; while her fourth, The Wicked Boy, was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010, she lives in London. [...]
Zusammenfassung
Credited with 'loosening the biographical stays' (Guardian)on contemporary non-fiction, Summerscale's books have sold 800,000 copies in the UK alone, and been published in nineteen countries. The Samuel Johnson Prize judges have declared her work 'those great non-fiction books that use the techniques of fiction to magnificent effect'
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: XVI
352 S.
ISBN-13: 9781408895474
ISBN-10: 1408895471
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Summerscale, Kate
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 199 x 132 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Kate Summerscale
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.09.2021
Gewicht: 0,312 kg
Artikel-ID: 119590699
Über den Autor
Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and adapted into a major ITV drama. Her first book, the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award. Her third book, Mrs Robinson's Disgrace, was a Sunday Times bestseller; while her fourth, The Wicked Boy, was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010, she lives in London. [...]
Zusammenfassung
Credited with 'loosening the biographical stays' (Guardian)on contemporary non-fiction, Summerscale's books have sold 800,000 copies in the UK alone, and been published in nineteen countries. The Samuel Johnson Prize judges have declared her work 'those great non-fiction books that use the techniques of fiction to magnificent effect'
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: XVI
352 S.
ISBN-13: 9781408895474
ISBN-10: 1408895471
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Summerscale, Kate
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 199 x 132 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Kate Summerscale
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.09.2021
Gewicht: 0,312 kg
Artikel-ID: 119590699
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