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New novel from Jonathan Kemp

Ghosting is the latest novel by Jonathan Kemp, who lectures on our Creative Writing Programmes.

Ghosting is the latest novel by Jonathan Kemp, who lectures on our Creative Writing Programmes.

When 64-year-old Grace Wellbeck thinks she sees the ghost of her first husband, she fears for her sanity and worries that she's having another breakdown. Long-buried memories come back thick and fast: from the fairground thrills of 1950s Blackpool to the dark reality of a violent marriage.

But the ghost turns out to be very real: a charismatic young man named Luke. And as Grace gets to know him, she is jolted into an emotional awakening that brings her to a momentous decision.

A 'Mrs Dalloway' for the modern age, drawing on a brilliant literary tradition of madness, incarceration and escape, Jonathan Kemp delivers the triumphant coming of age of a woman in her sixties.

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