![]() ![]() The fact it is back in print at all is testimony not only to Gatiss reviving interest, but the tenacity of Virago editor Donna Coonan.Ĭoonan was first introduced to the novel a decade ago, and immediately fell in love with Barber’s story of siblings Lucy and Jamie who move to a dilapidated country mansion in 1918 when their mother is offered a job as housekeeper by the mysterious solicitor Mr Blunden.īut Blunden has an ulterior motive as Lucy and Jamie discover when they encounter what appear to be the ghosts of two children who lived in the house a century before. Photograph: ViragoĪlthough The Ghosts was shortlisted for the Carnegie medal when it first came out, and was given a movie-tie in edition when the Lionel Jeffries big-screen adaptation was released in 1972, it fell out of print secondhand copies are scarce and selling for upwards of £100 online. ![]() The new edition of The Amazing Mr Blunden. ![]()
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