A Jealous Ghost

'A must for James admirers and everyone else who appreciates fine writing and an original story' Ruth Rendell, GuardianThere is something rather disquieting about Sallie Declan, a young American in London, and it is not just her obsession with Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, the subject of her PhD thesis. There is her decision, almost casually taken, to leave her studies for a temporary job as a nanny in a large country house. She seems to display astonishing naivety as she builds a fantasy about her emotional future there. Surely she can see it is all delusion? But a progressively darker reality unfolds as we are led inexorably towards a terrible and shocking climax.'Once you have read A Jealous Ghost, I'm afraid you won't be able to get it out of your head. Ever? Quite possibly' Susan Hill, Spectator'Irresistibly readable and, finally, terrifying. Wilson turns the screw in masterly fashion' John Sutherland, Evening Standard'A tragi-comedy of elegant and unrelieved blackness' Sunday Telegraph'Compelling... Genuinely hard to put down' Sunday Times'Gruesomely entertaining... intellectually fascinating' Daily Mail