The Ghost Clause by Howard Norman
Fiction

What it’s about: The story is narrated by Simon, a ghost who is haunting his former Vermont home, now occupied by a young couple. Muriel translates Japanese poetry, her husband Zach is a rookie detective at a local detective agency. Simon witnesses the impact of a child's disappearance on the couple's relationship and is also privy to their desire to have a child, mirroring the difficulties Simon and his wife Lorca experienced in their own marriage.

Reviewers say: “Thoughtful, elegiac, a good book to read by the fireside with a snifter of bourbon” (Library Journal). “This is an astute, beautifully written novel” (Publishers Weekly).

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