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The Haunting of Alma Fielding by Kate Summerscale is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Haunting of Alma Fielding about?
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A page-turner with the authority of history' PHILIPPA GREGORY'As gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read' SARAH WATERS'A wonderful book about the world of mediums' HILARY MANTEL, Open Book, BBC Radio 4London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home.Nandor Fodor – a Jewish-Hungarian refugee and chief ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical research – begins to investigate. In doing so he discovers a different and darker type of haunting: trauma, alienation, loss – and the foreshadowing of a nation's worst fears. As the spectre of Fascism lengthens over Europe, and as Fodor's obsession with the case deepens, Alma becomes ever more disturbed.With rigour, daring and insight, the award-winning pioneer of historical narrative...
Who reads The Haunting of Alma Fielding?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kate Summerscale
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, European History, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (624 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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