Publisher's Synopsis
In a way, all good essays are about the things that haunt us until we have somehow embraced or understood them. Here, Noble considers the ways she has been haunted-by a near-death experience, the gaze of a nude model, thoughts of widowhood, Anne Boleyn's violent death, a book she can't stop reading, a past lover who shadows her thoughts-in essays both pleasant and bitter, traditional and lyrical, and persistently evocative and unforgettable.