The Haunting of Alma Fielding - Kate Summerscale - 2020
A True Ghost Story
By: Kate Summerscale
Narrated by: David Morrissey
Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 04-27-21
Language: English
Genre: Biography, True Crime
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format: mp3 64/48 mono
Publisher's Summary
Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford prize
Internationally best-selling and Edgar Award-winning author Kate Summerscale follows a ghost hunter in 1938 London in a case that illuminates changing social attitudes toward psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the supernatural.
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, 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.
©2020 Kate Summerscale (P)2020 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Critic Reviews
“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, author of Tipping the Velvet)
“A page-turner with the authority of history.” (Philippa Gregory, author of The Other Queen)
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