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THE HAUNTING OF ALMA FIELDING

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

A True Ghost Story

London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young housewife, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home.

Nandor Fodor – a Jewish-Hungarian émigré and chief ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical Research – decides 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 pioneering non-fiction author Kate Summerscale shadows Fodor's enquiry, delving into long-hidden archives to find the human story behind a very modern haunting.

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'Inside Edition' episode on Alma Fielding 
‘With her eye for evocative period detail, her sensitivity to the quirks and poignancies of human motivation, and her brilliant storytelling skills, Summerscale has taken this corker of a case and made it as gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read’
Sarah Waters
Baillie Gifford Prize 'Watch Party' with Kate Summerscale
ALSO BY KATE SUMMERSCALE
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