Book description
* SHORTLISTED FOR THE PORTICO PRIZE 2022 *
A deeply affecting and unconventional love story, shot through with anger, black humour and grief.
One ordinary morning, Laurie's husband Mark vanishes, leaving behind his phone and wallet. For weeks, she tells no one, carrying on her job as a cleaner at…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Ghosted as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Jenn Ashworth's Ghosted is not what it seems. At first, it appears to be the story of a woman whose husband has walked out on her. Has he disappeared, or met with an accident? The real reason for his disappearance slowly becomes apparent, and the novel takes a decidedly dark direction. Ashworth very skilfully reveals what has actually happened to the narrator and her husband, but this is information she parcels out very slowly to the reader. This is an unsettling, even harrowing, study of grief and loss.
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