Lost A Novel
Lost A Novel by Gregory Maguire, published by Harper Collins on September 28, 2010, is a reprint edition comprising 352 pages in English. The story follows Winifred Rudge, a writer grappling with the aftermath of her successful astrology book. In an effort to revitalize her career, she travels to London to work on a new novel centered around a woman haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival, she discovers that her step-cousin John Comestor has mysteriously vanished, and a ghostly presence seems to have taken over his home.
Readers will find that the narrative unfolds as Winnie delves into the mystery surrounding her cousin’s disappearance and the spectral occurrences in his house. The plot intertwines elements of family legend, including the possibility that the spirit haunting the home may be linked to her great-great-grandfather, who was said to have inspired Charles Dickens’s Ebenezer Scrooge. As Winnie investigates, she becomes embroiled in a drama involving both her family’s unusual history and her own unresolved past, exploring themes of fiction and the supernatural.
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Winifred Rudge, a writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival, she finds that her step-cousin and old friend John Comestor has disappeared, and a ghostly presence seems to have taken over his home. Is the spirit Winnie’s great-great-grandfather, who, family legend claims, was Charles Dickens’s childhood inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge? Could it be the ghostly remains of Jack the Ripper? Or a phantasm derived from a more arcane and insidious origin? Winnie begins to investigate and finds herself the unwilling audience for a drama of specters and shades—some from her family’s peculiar history and some from her own unvanquished past.
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