The Haunting of Alma Fielding

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020

De: Kate Summerscale

Narrado por: David Morrissey

Bloomsbury presents The Haunting of Alma Fielding by Kate Summerscale, read by David Morrissey.

FROM BRITAIN’S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER

'A wonderful book' HILARY MANTEL

'Gothic, dark and scandalous' SUNDAY TIMES

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION

It is 1938. As the shadow of fascism darkens over Europe, strange things are happening in Alma Fielding’s suburban home in Croydon. Crockery flies off the shelves; stolen rings appear on Alma’s fingers; and white mice scuttle out of her handbag.

Nandor Fodor – chief ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical Research – arrives on the scene, determined to crack the case. As Fodor’s obsession deepens, and Alma becomes ever more disturbed, the pair find themselves in a treacherous battle of wills . . .

'Prepare not to see much broad daylight, literal or metaphorical, for days if you read this’ THE TIMES

'Nobody is better at unpicking stories of ghosts and murder than Kate Summerscale … Will stay with you for weeks’ DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR

'As gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read’ SARAH WATERS

‘A detective novel, a ghost yarn and a historical record rolled into one . . . Electrifying’ i-PAPER

‘It would be impossible to read this dry-eyed’ SPECTATOR©2020 Kate Summerscale (P)2020 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Reseñas de la Crítica

Hidden realities of a different kind lie beneath the story of Kate Summerscale’s The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story, which delves into the 1930s case of the “Croydon Poltergeist”, investigated by Nandor Fodor, chief ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical Research

Gothic, dark and scandalous ... A gripping account

A chilling real life ghost story ... This book scared me witless

Expertly told, with all the twists and turns of a chilly novel by Wilkie Collins or Barbara Vine ... The more Summerscale delves, the more she finds out about the hidden compartments of the human mind (Craig Brown)

A terrific true ghost story ... her best book since The Suspicions of Mr Whicher ... She has achieved the perfect balance between her central story and its cultural context.

With The Haunting of Alma Fielding, Kate Summerscale does for ghosts what she did for a murder in her very successfulThe Suspicions of Mr Whicher

Riveting ... One of the many great pleasures of The Haunting of Alma Fielding, as in all of her work, is her knack of recreating the feverish atmosphere of the time (Daisy Goodwin)

A detective novel, a ghost yarn and a historical record rolled into one. Blending fact and fiction, it is an electrifying reconstruction

Summerscale revisits these strange events with her customary wide research and in lucid and unadorned prose…she draws a convincing and compelling portrait of a moment of mass anxiety in which so deep was the longing to believe that anything could become believable

London, 1938, and a young woman begins to experience supernatural events. Is she really haunted, or is something else going on? The author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher investigates

With her eye for evocative period detail, her sensitivity to the quirks and poignancies of human motivation, and her brilliant storytelling skills, Summerscale has taken this corker of a case and made it as gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read (SARAH WATERS)

An engrossing, weirdly timely book about the relationship between the bodily self and the trauma of a haunted mind

Prepare not to see much broad daylight, literal or metaphorical, for days if you read this ... the atmosphere evoked is something I will never forget

Astonishingly gripping. As ever, she offers fascinating insights into what the story tells you about the era in which it unfolded and spotting ingenious parallels in contemporary art and literature, but without ever allowing the narrative pace to slow up

As with her previous books, Summerscale weaves personal records with meticulous research carried out over three years, to not just resurrect the people involved, but the world in which they live. We are walking with the dead, but the author is conjuring something more believable, more unsettling, than anything you will find in a dodgy seance hall