Ghostwritten

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A deeply moving read I loved it Dinah Jefferies, bestselling author of THE TEA PLANTERS WIFE
As a child in the Second World War, Klara was interned in a Japanese prison camp on Java during the occupation. Her childhood years became an extraordinary and harrowing story of survival, a story that few people have heard.

Jenni is a ghost: she writes the lives of other people and Klara is her latest subject. Haunted by a childhood tragedy, Jenni finds it easier to take refuge in the memories of others than to dwell on her own.

But as Jenni and Klara begin to get to know each other, Jenni begins to do much more than shed light on Klaras family and girlhood in a neglected part of Second World War history. She is forced to examine her own devastating memories, too. Perhaps, finally, the two women will be able to lay the ghosts of their pasts to rest

Gripping, poignant and beautifully researched, Ghostwritten is a story of survival and love, of memory and hope.

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A deeply moving read I loved it Dinah Jeffries, author of The Tea Planters Wife

A brilliant, tender and thought-provoking read The Lady

An emotional read and well worth burning the midnight oil over. Western Morning News

A poignant story that portrays the suffering of women and children with vivid horror Sunday Mirror

Wonderful, tender and compelling Rachel Hore, author of The Silent Tide

Haunting reading My Weekly

'Breathtakingly beautiful and sensitive a gripping and extraordinarily poignant story which captures both heart and mind.' Lancashire Evening Post

Beautifully written, extraordinarily moving a story that grips from start to finish Lesley Downer, author of Across a Bridge of Dreams

Author Bio

Isabel Wolff was born in Warwickshire, read English at Cambridge and is the Sunday Times bestselling author of nine novels, all published worldwide. She lives in London with her family.