• Stedelijke Openbare Bibliotheek Gent, Ghent, Belgium

Publisher of Nominated Edition
Hamish Hamilton Ltd.
ISBN 0241142784

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 - baby Max and a new child on the way. 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, which asks how we can ever mourn something that hasn't lived. Emotionally resonant, beautifully crafted and ultimately redemptive, it will take you to the heart of suffering and desire.

Toby Litt was born in 1968. He grew up in Bedfordshire, UK. He is the author of Adventures in Capitalism, Beatniks, Corpsing, Deadkidsongs, Exhibitionism, Finding Myself and Ghost Story.