ENGLISH

Lost

By Gregory Maguire

Book information

Publisher
HarperCollins
Year
2010
ISBN
0061960578, 9780061960574
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
295 kB (302335 bytes)
Edition
Reprint
Pages
\0
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Winifred Rudge, a 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 step-cousin 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.

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