All the Beloved Ghosts

First US edition

Hardback (18 Apr 2017)

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Publisher's Synopsis

"A woman emerging from mourning spends her savings on a fur coat, a coat she will wear to a dance that will change her life. A professor of cardiovascular physiology lingers on the cusp of consciousness as he waits for his new heart to be delivered, still beating, from another body--and is carried on a tidal wave of memories to an attic room half a century ago. Visiting Sylvia Plath's grave in Yorkshire, the author imagines a conversation with the poet, a fellow North American who settled in grey England. She reflects on the treasured photograph of Princess Diana she took as a teenager, one of a multitude taken during a life cut short. And at Charleston, Angelica Garnett, child of the Bloomsbury group, is overpowered by echoes of the past; by all the beloved ghosts that spring to life before her eyes. MacLeod's characters hover on the border of life and death, where memory is most vivid and the present most elusive. Moving from the Lond

Book information

ISBN: 9781632865434
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Imprint: Bloomsbury
Pub date:
Edition: First US edition
DEWEY: 823.914
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 237
Weight: 408g
Height: 211mm
Width: 145mm
Spine width: 25mm