Lost
Language: English
Adventure Americans Americans - England - London Authors Fantasy Fantasy - General Fiction Fiction - General General General & Literary Fiction Ghost Ghost stories Jack Literary London (England) Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Modern fiction Thriller Women authors Women authors; American - England - London - Fiction
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: Sep 5, 2002
Description:
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Winifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival, she finds that her stepcousin and old friend John Comestor has disappeared, and a ghostly presence seems to have taken over his home. Is the spirit Winnie's great-great-grandfather, who, family legend claims, was Charles Dickens's childhood inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge? Could it be the ghostly remains of Jack the Ripper? Or a phantasm derived from a more arcane and insidious origin? Winnie begins to investigate and finds herself the unwilling audience for a drama of specters and shades -- some from her family's peculiar history and some from her own unvanquished past. In the spirit of A. S. Byatt's *Possession,* with dark echoing overtones of *A Christmas Carol,* *Lost* presents a rich fictional world that will enrapture its readers.