Sarah is weary from cold and poverty and cannot afford to turn the position down despite understandable misgivings. She accepts a questionable assignment with a writer who documents cases of hauntings. Into this backdrop steps Sarah Piper, a lonely, nearly destitute temp agency clerk-transcriptionist. The death toll from the 1918 influenza pandemic is estimated between 50 and 100 million, the greatest natural disaster in world history. The death toll from the Great War was roughly nine million. In The Haunting of Maddy Clare, Britain is in mourning. If ever there was a time for hurt and bewildered ghosts to wander, this was it. The decades that followed the Victorian and Edwardian eras into the Interwar years were filled with mayhem and bloodshed and mustard gas and influenza. I don’t know if it’s a coincidence, but many of the ghost novels I’ve been reading lately are set in the 1920’s. James Publisher: New American Library, 330 pages Format: paperback Source: Purchased The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St.
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