In this third novel by the acclaimed bestselling author of Wicked and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, famed children’s book author Winifred Rudge travels to London to research a book about a woman who is being haunted by Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival she finds that her stepcousin John Comestor has mysteriously disappeared, and a ghostly presence has taken over his apartment in the 19th-century rowhouse once owned by Winnie’s great-great-grandfather. Is it the ghost of the grandfather, who family legend claims was Charles Dickens’s childhood inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge Or a spirit from a more ancient age
In the spirit of A.S. Byatt’s Possession and touching on “A Christmas Carol,” “Peter Pan,” and the legend of Jack the Ripper, Lost creates an amazingly rich fictional.
By:
Gregory Maguire Imprint: Harper Collins Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 155mm,
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 402g ISBN:9780060988647 ISBN 10: 0060988649 Pages: 354 Publication Date:27 November 2002 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Other merchandise Publisher's Status: Active
