SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE \'A page-turner with the authority of history\' PHILIPPA GREGORY \'As gripping as a novel. \'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.
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.
As the spectre of Fascism lengthens over Europe, and as Fodor\'s obsession with the case deepens, Alma becomes ever more disturbed.
In doing so he discovers a different and darker type of haunting: trauma, alienation, loss - and the foreshadowing of a nation\'s worst fears.
Nandor Fodor - a Jewish-Hungarian refugee and chief ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical research - begins to investigate.
Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home.
An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read\' SARAH WATERS \'A wonderful book about the world of mediums\' HILARY MANTEL, Open Book, BBC Radio 4 London, 1938.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE \'A page-turner with the authority of history\' PHILIPPA GREGORY \'As gripping as a novel
