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Title details for The Haunting of Alma Fielding by Kate Summerscale - Available

The Haunting of Alma Fielding

A True Ghost Story

by Kate Summerscale
David Morrissey
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Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR • The Sunday Times • The New Statesman • The Times • The Spectator • The Telegraph
Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A New York Times Book Review Paperback Row Selection
“Prepare not to see much broad daylight, literal or metaphorical, for days if you read this.... The atmosphere evoked is something I will never forget.”—The Times (London)
London, 1938. In the suburbs of the city, a young housewife has become the eye in a storm of chaos. In Alma Fielding’s modest home, china flies off the shelves and eggs fly through the air; stolen jewelry appears on her fingers, white mice crawl out of her handbag, beetles appear from under her gloves; in the middle of a car journey, a turtle materializes on her lap. The culprit is incorporeal. As Alma cannot call the police, she calls the papers instead.
After the sensational story headlines the news, Nandor Fodor, a Hungarian ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical Research, arrives to investigate the poltergeist. But when he embarks on his scrupulous investigation, he discovers that the case is even stranger than it seems.
By unravelling Alma’s peculiar history, Fodor finds a different and darker type of haunting, a tale of trauma, alienation, loss and revenge. He comes to believe that Alma’s past has bled into her present, her mind into her body. There are no words for processing her experience, so it comes to possess her. As the threat of a world war looms, and as Fodor’s obsession with the case deepens, Alma becomes ever more disturbed.
With characteristic rigor and insight, Kate Summerscale brilliantly captures the rich atmosphere of a haunting that transforms into a very modern battle between the supernatural and the subconscious.

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    April 27, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9780593394496
      • File size: 239998 KB
      • Duration: 08:19:59

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator David Morrissey's deep, rich voice dramatizes this fascinating real-life tale. In 1938 London, housewife Alma Fielding claims to be the victim of a poltergeist. Nandor Fodor, a well-known paranormal investigator, begins a complicated relationship with Alma to find out the truth about what is going on. At this time, England, traumatized by WWI, is experiencing an uptick in paranormal activity. Fodor must discover whether Alma is a fraud, she is manifesting pain from a traumatic event, or the poltergeist is genuine. Morrissey nimbly moves between the voices of Alma and Fodor in such a subtle way that the shifts are not distracting for listeners. Morrissey's English accent and delivery are the perfect vehicles for this intriguing tale. A.M. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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