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Burning Out * Like The Time Travellor’s Wife, a combination of holiday reading with a mildly supernatural twist *A classic summer reading novel * Author signing sessions available * Online review coverage planned * Our lead general fiction summer title with the focus, attention and budget to fit. * A reinvention of the classic ghost story: the main character is haunted by her past self *Entered into every eligible prize including Richard and Judy
About the author: Katherine May’s work stems from a fascination with ghost stories, and in her 2006 collection of short stories, Ghost & their Uses, she reimagined ghosts into new settings, often playing with the idea of a haunting in all its ambiguity and construction. Burning Out takes this idea one step further - the central character is haunted by a past self, an experience that offers her the same mirror on her life that a more traditional ghost might have done. 01/07/2009 • £7.99• B Format Pbk • 350 pages 198mm x 129mm • ISBN 9781906727390
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About the book: Violet has a good job, a luxury apartment, a success life. But she feels drained and pressurised and, on the verge of snapping, retreats to her home town. There, she meets a girl: carefree, sassy, vivacious and everything Violet wishes she was. Slowly, though, comes the realisation that this girl is living Violet’s own past. Haunted by her past self,Violet knows that history will repeat itself - and knows that it will have catastrophic consequences.
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