Lost: A Novel (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Lost: A Novel Friday, July 31 2009.

• Winifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival, she finds that her stepcousin and old friend John Comestor has disappeared, and a ghostly presence seems to have taken over his home. Is the spirit Winnie's great-great-grandfather, who, family legend claims, was Charles Dickens's childhood inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge? Could it be the ghostly remains of Jack the Ripper? Or a phantasm derived from a more arcane and insidious origin? Winnie begins to investigate and finds herself the unwilling audience for a drama of specters and shades -- some from her family's peculiar history and some from her own unvanquished past. In the spirit of A. S. Byatt's Possession, with dark echoing overtones of A Christmas Carol, Lost presents a rich fictional world that will enrapture its readers.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Lost: A Novel Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Gregory Maguire: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Lost: A Novel Thursday, July 16 2009.

• said the attorney-type into his cell phone.