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'A deeply moving memoir, raw with loss, yet luminous with love' SARAH WATERS
'What a kind, honest book. What a gift of love' DAVID MITCHELL
'Essential reading from an all-time great' SARA COLLINS
'A remarkable achievement' LOUISE KENNEDY
Ghost Stories is Siri Hustvedt's most personal work yet, a searing and intimate meditation on grief, memory, and enduring love, written in the aftermath of the death of her husband, writer, poet and filmmaker Paul Auster.
It is a patchwork-quilt book that stitches together memories from over forty years of love and life together: journal entries Siri wrote between early November 2023, when Paul first became ill, and 3 May 2024, the day of his funeral; e-mails Siri sent to friends during Paul's cancer treatment; notes Paul sent her over the course of their relationship; and three love letters Siri wrote to him in 1981, when he left her for a period of nine or ten days to return to his former life with his first wife and son.
The book also contains Paul Auster's last ever piece of writing - the first thirty-five pages of what he hoped would be a small book of letters to Siri's and his grandson, Miles Auster Hustvedt Ostrander, born on 1st January 2024.
Unflinching, tender and wise, this is the full-bodied story of Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster's life together, an exploration of how grief unmoors time and how the intimacy of a shared life continues to mark the everyday.
'She's a twenty-first-century Virginia Woolf' LITERARY REVIEW
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Pages: 320
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Sceptre
Publication Date: 2026-05-05
ISBN: 9781399753852
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