An academic is haunted by his dead colleague's certainty; a tutor is confronted with an eight year old's mortal secret and Aunt Selena's dancing bear appears from beyond the grave. In this collection of ghost stories A. L. Barker brings her storytelling powers to cast more than an element of doubt on the differences dividing life and death, good and evil, animate and inanimate as the uncanny enters the everyday world.
'There is no better living woman writer in the English language.' Martin Seymour-Smith, Financial Times
'She writes with a precision and economy of words which had me gasping with admiration.' Auberon Waugh, Independent
'A. L. Barker has a well-deserved reputation among the cognoscenti for beautifully made short stories.' Robert Nye
- ISBN10 0099190516
- ISBN13 9780099190516
- Publish Date 15 October 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Vintage
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 170
- Language English