Book Description
From one of Granta magazine's twenty best of Young British Novelists comes a haunting trip to the heart of suffering and despair.
When Agatha and Paddy decide to leave London and buy a house on the coast, they are full of hope for themselves and their growing family. Three months later, when the builders move out and they move in, things look very different. A personal tragedy threatens to destroy all they have carefully built up and only a small miracle, it seems, will save them...
Ghost Story is a book both haunted and haunting that asks how we can ever mourn something that hasn't lived. Emotionally resonant, beautifully crafted, and ultimately redemptive, it is Toby Litt's finest, most mature novel to date.
About the Author
Toby Litt was born in Bedfordshire, England, in 1968. He read English at Worcester College, Oxford, and studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia, where he was taught by Malcolm Bradbury, winning the 1995 Curtis Brown Fellowship. He is the author of the short-story collections Adventures in Capitalism and Exhibitionism and of three novels, including Beatniks: An English Road Movie, a modern On the Road transposed to middle-England (currently being adapted for film); Corpsing, a thriller set in London's Soho; and Deadkidsongs, a dark tale of childhood. He edited The Outcry, Henry James's last completed novel, for Penguin UK. In 2003 Litt was nominated by Granta magazine as one of the 20 "Best of Young British Novelists." He lives in London, England, and is a member of English PEN.