The Haunting of Alma Fielding av Kate Summerscale

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