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The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story

Kate Summerscale

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The Haunting of Alma Fielding won the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize and was a Book of the Year in the Sunday Times, The Times, Daily Telegraph, i Paper, New Statesman, Spectator, and the Sunday Express. 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, Kate Summerscale shadows Fodor's enquiry, delving into long-hidden archives to find the human story behind a very modern haunting.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Circus
ISBN-13
9781408895450
Genre
History
Topics
Psychical research and ghost hunting1930s England and rise of FascismTrauma and psychological unraveling

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