Ghostwalk

Hardcover | 1 April 2007 | Edition Number 1

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Set in present-day Cambridge, but entangled with the 17th century, this is at once a ghost story, a love story and a beautifully told history of 17th century Cambridge - as well as a four-hundred year-old murder mystery in which Isaac Newton is a suspect.The son of a reclusive historian finds his mother's drowned body in the tributary of the River Cam that runs through her garden. She is clutching a glass prism. Elizabeth Vogelsang's magnum opus, a book on Isaac Newton's alchemy, is incomplete. Lydia Brooke, a writer friend of the dead historian, returns to Cambridge to the funeral. It is five years since she has seen Elizabeth's son, Cameron Brown, with whom she has had an intermittent love affair that began some fifteen years earlier.Cambridge, she discovers, is in the midst of an upsurge of attacks by animal rights extremists, an unidentified group called NABED. Cameron, who, as a neuroscientist uses animal experimentation, has been targeted.Cameron asks Lydia to act as a paid ghostwriter in the completion of his mother's book, Alchemist. Lydia agrees to the proposal and moves into Elizabeth's strange house, a triangular shaped studio on the banks of the Cam. Soon Lydia finds herself entangled, not only with Cameron, but also with a four-hundred year-old murder mystery, a network of 17th century alchemists and a ghostly figure intent on disrupting her work.

Industry Reviews

'An amazing work - a highly intelligent thriller that combines the supernatural with modern quantam theory; the current war on terror with Isaac Newton's work on light and gravity, and his delving into alchemy in the seventeenth century. At once mind-boggling and mind-expanding.' Nicholas Mosley, author of Hopeful Monsters and Time at War -- Nicholas Mosley 'A beautifully written book, mixing a compelling contemporary love story and a fascinating historical investigation, with Isaac Newton and alchemy playing a crucial role. The mystery at the novel's centre is audacious, convincing, and will make readers think anew about what history is.' -- Iain Pears, author of An Instance at the Fingerpost 'This daring mystery tangles occult and scientific knowledge with obsessive love and hidden world events. It is wonderfully down to earth, and genuinely eerie. Once in, you are not likely to leave off reading until after the very last twist.' -- Dr Gillian Beer 'If you like supernatural romantic fiction you'll love GHOSTWALK...[a] complex thriller.' SAGA (April '07) 'Most impressive' -- Peter Guttridge The Observer (15.4.07) 'Stott's prose has...poetic brilliance...Ghostwalk is a pacy...thriller with some creepy moments.' -- Victoria Brookes THE HERALD (24.3.07) "Stott makes fine use of historical material" -- Anthony Gardner MAIL ON SUNDAY 'An eerily compelling read' -- Claire Figuero TIME OUT 'I found it deliciously slow, gradually racheting up the tension to final violent denouement.' HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW

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