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My rating: 5 of 5 stars


This is Duncan Ralston's debut novel and he is justly proud of it.

Although the sub-title declares it to be a "Ghost story", it is as much family saga as supernatural horror. Indeed, this aspect of the tale may be more important than the supernatural part. In any event, the two are cleverly interwoven, the characters complex, and the premise, engrossing.

The build-up to the supernatural element of the plot is slow, but that doesn't matter because there is so much to hold your attention in the lives of the dysfunctional family that is the focus of the book.

Perhaps one day Duncan will try his hand at a non-supernatural novel about a family that is at war with itself. I suspect he could do that rather well.

In the meantime, we can all enjoy this, his remarkable ghostly debut.




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