The Haunting of Alma Fielding (okładka  miękka, wyd. 06.2020)

`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`