Poor Ghost!'Place, belonging, failure, ambition: this beguilingly readable novel has interesting, fresh things to say on them all' Wendy Erskine, author of The Benefactors 'A moving meditation on inheritance and home' Esquire 'Acidly funny' TLS Luca is back in Manchester, returning from Harvard with little more than a broken heart and a failed academic career. Desperate for money and still clinging to his literary dreams, he finds work as a ghost writer. Andy, a

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has been found dead in her Brighton boarding house and he's convinced that he'll be accused of her murder

She solves the mystery

At a time when a historical Christian Nationalism and chauvinism are gaining ground

each from the perspective of a white townsperson

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the Map Men

she's grateful for the company - but as their friendship grows

For over two decades

families and world we can imagine

before returning home to join the infighting on BBC Radio 4's Today

including Marc Antony