The Winter Ghosts
Kate Mosse
Price: £12.99
On Sale: 1 October 2009
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About the Book
March 1928. Freddie is on holiday in south west France. When his car crashes, he stumbles down from the mountains to a hotel in the nearest village. There he meets a beautiful young woman called Marie. As the storm rages outside, she explains how war destroyed her home and her family. Marie's story touches Freddie, but when he wakes the next morning, she has gone. Waiting for his car to be mended, he decides to explore the mountains where Marie's family took refuge. But buried in the cave he finds a secret older and more shocking than anything he could have imagined...By turns thrilling, poignant and haunting, this is a story of two lives touched by war and transformed by courage.
Author
Kate Mosse CBE FRSL is an award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer. The author of eleven novels and short-story collections, her books have been translated into thirty-eight languages and published in more than forty countries. Fiction includes the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy, The Joubert Family Chronicles (the number one bestselling The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship and The Map of Bones), and number one bestselling Gothic fiction. Her highly acclaimed non-fiction includes An Extra Pair of Hands and Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World. The Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, she is the founder of the global #WomanInHistory campaign. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Kate is a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester, President of the Festival of Chichester, an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Authors and a Trustee of the British Library.
Reviews
Beautiful and haunting, this is a great story of love, loss and courage.
WOMAN
An absorbing tale of loss and remembrance in the aftermath of the First World War ... Mosse excels at transporting her readers into another time and another world ... Mosse's depiction of life in Southern France between the wars is utterly convincing. Not only that, the book itself is a work of art - with stunning illustrations by artist Brian Gallagher and copies of vintage maps as endpapers.
EXPRESS
A poignant, spooky study of mourning and redemption.
MARIE CLAIRE
The themes of love, loss and remembrance are explored to create a wonderfully haunting winter's tale. Stop the clock and read it in one sitting.
SHE
An enchanting novella ... Mosse proves that she can weave a web of poignant and thrilling strands that will ensnare any reader.
THE LADY
Beautiful and haunting, this is a great story of love, loss and courage.
WOMAN
An absorbing tale of loss and remembrance in the aftermath of the First World War ... Mosse excels at transporting her readers into another time and another world ... Mosse's depiction of life in Southern France between the wars is utterly convincing. Not only that, the book itself is a work of art - with stunning illustrations by artist Brian Gallagher and copies of vintage maps as endpapers.
EXPRESS
A poignant, spooky study of mourning and redemption.
MARIE CLAIRE
The themes of love, loss and remembrance are explored to create a wonderfully haunting winter's tale. Stop the clock and read it in one sitting.
SHE
An enchanting novella ... Mosse proves that she can weave a web of poignant and thrilling strands that will ensnare any reader.
THE LADY
Product Details
ISBN: 9781409112280
Published: 1 October 2009
272 Pages