JAMES WILSON

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I honestly thought that - if I could only nerve myself to it - I'd be able to bring her back again . . . Just one supreme act of enchantment. It is 1910 and Corley Roper, a famous children's author, is mourning the death of his young daughter. Estranged from his wife and wracked by grief, he happens one night upon Mary Wilson, a woman in a similar situation, as she mourns the stillbirth of her son. No longer able to enter into the fictional world that made his name, and haunted by the ghost of this other lost child, Roper decides to solve the mystery of Mary's ancestry, a journey which will take stranger twists than he ever could have imagined. 'James Wilson movingly shows how much madness may lie in losing the things we most love.' Independent on Sunday 'Elegant and memorable.' TLS 'Wilson's previous novels have shown his skill at creating characters who occupy a plausible past. He is equally good here, with his lovingly detailed Edwardian world and the certainties of its inhabitants . . . The book is beautifully written, too.' Andrew Taylor, author of The American Boy