Description
| Product ID: | 9781408895474 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Haunting of Alma Fielding |
| Subtitle: | SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 |
| Authors: | Author: Kate Summerscale |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Subjects: | Biography: general, Biography: general, True crime, Biography and non-fiction prose, Horror and supernatural fiction, Social and cultural history, Criminal investigation and detection, True crime, Prose: non-fiction, Horror & ghost stories, Social & cultural history, Criminal investigation & detection |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 WATERSLondon, 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 EDEMARIAMA 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 WATERSLondon, 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 EDEMARIAMA PICK OF THE AUTUMN IN THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND THE GUARDIAN |
| Imprint Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-09-16 |