Ghostheart

Roger Jon Ellory

You'd expect something different from a book recommended by both The Sunday Telegraph and The Big Issue and Ghostheart certainly deliveries. Part thriller, part Holocaust lesson, part search for a meaning to her life by its modern 30-something heroine, the book rarely disappoints - though the upbeat ending didn't quite ring true for me.

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