The Haunting of Alma

Fielding :
SHORTLISTED FOR
THE BAILLIE GIFFORD
PRIZE 2020
 By
Kate Summerscale
Bloomsbury Publishing
PLC
 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE

A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE

TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, i PAPER, NEW STATESMAN,
SPECTATOR AND THE SUNDAY EXPRESS

'A page-turner with the authority of history' PHILIPPA GREGORY

'As gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying
read' SARAH WATERS
'A wonderful book about the world of mediums' HILARY
MANTEL, Open Book, BBC Radio 4

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.

'An empathetic, meticulous account of a spiritual unravelling; a

tribute to the astonishing power of the human mind - but also a
 properly absorbing, baffling, satisfying detective story' AIDA
EDEMARIAM

A PICK OF THE AUTUMN IN THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES,

OBSERVER AND THE GUARDIAN

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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