Ghost Music

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An English spa town in 1935 is made famous by an American novel: a love-story. Three years later, a young married actress travels there alone and finds the love-story itself, as she falls passionately in love with a young English man. Then, in the present, history seems to repeat itself when an English girl, haunted by the novel, visits the town and falls in love with a young archaeologist working there, and the tragic secrets of the pre-war love-affair are finally revealed.

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Clark displays a rare sensitivity: she creates delicate emotional shades, and the rural sounds and smells of June...are startlingly fresh - Telegraph

A haunting tale told in an original way - Vogue

Candida Clark is justly known for stylistic virtuosity, for melancholy rhythms and mysterious evocativeness - Independent

A serious and thoughtful work, exploring its complex themes with considerable sophistication and a delicate intensity...Ghost Music has its own undeniable resonance, continuing to echo powerfully in the mind after the last page has been turned - Guardian

This moving novel confirms Clark's status as one of the best young writers of today - Sainsbury's Magazine

Author Bio

Candida Clark was born in 1970, and lives in Oxford. She reviews regularly for the Observer and the Telegraph. This is her fourth novel.