STOTT, REBECCA — Ghostwalk

New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2007. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0385521065. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Stott's debut novel, Ghostwalk (2007) was shortlisted for the Jelf Group First Novel Award and the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. [3] Lydia Brooke is called upon to be the ghostwriter of a book on Sir Isaac Newton's alchemy. Brooke comes to suspect that the death of the book's author, Cambridge historian Elizabeth Vogelsang, may somehow relate to a series of unsolved seventeenth-century murders. The novel, an innovative mix of fiction and non-fiction, blends seventeenth-century accounts of plague, glassmaking, alchemy and theories of optics with a contemporary plot involving quantum physics and animal rights campaigns. The New York Times reviewer called it "Mesmerizing . Ghostwalk has an all-too-rare scholarly authority and imaginative sparkle" and compared it to the works of Borges and Edgar Allan Poe. The Independent in 2012 chose it as one of ten best ghost novels. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .