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Ghostwritten
- Author: Isabel Wolff
- Category: Fiction Commercial Women’s / Romance
- Publisher: HarperCollins (UK), Bantam (US)
- Pub date: Spring 2013
- Length: 100,000 words approxmately
About Ghostwritten
Nina Michaels is a ghostwriter. At 36 she has penned, anonymously, the autobiographies of artists, fashion designers, political figures and TV personalities. Good with words, and with a deep curiosity about her subject‟s lives, Nina likes the fact that no-one knows who she is.
Indeed she has always shunned the limelight, preferring to take on a supporting, hidden role. Haunted by the memory of a tragic event in her childhood, Nina finds it easier to take refuge in the memories of others.One day Nina is commissioned to write the memoirs of an elderly artist, Evelyn Cox. However, the reason for the publishers’ interest in Evelyn is not her career as a sculptor, but because of the role that she played during the Second World War – she was one of 39 women SOE‟s parachuted into France, only thirteen of whom survived. Nina is excited at the prospect of rendering this remarkable woman’s life into print and has already eagerly accepted the commission over the phone when she learns where Evelyn Cox lives – at Polscatho, in Cornwall, in a house overlooking the very beach that holds such awful memories for Nina.
While the prospect of returning to Polscatho for the first time in twenty five year fills Nina with dread, she decides that perhaps this is exactly what she needs finally to lay a ghost from her past to sleep. GHOSTWRITTEN will have Isabel Wolff‟s signature blend of pathos, humour, mystery and romance – with a hint of the supernatural too.
About the Author
Isabel Wolff is a bestselling author whose eight romantic comedy novels have been published in twenty nine languages, selling a million copies in France alone. Isabel’s debut novel, THE TRIALS OF TIFFANY TROTT (HarperCollins 1998) grew out of her popular Daily Telegraph novel of the same name and was swiftly followed by THE MAKING OF MINTY MALONE, OUT OF THE BLUE, RESCUING ROSE, BEHAVING BADLY, A QUESTION OF LOVE, FORGET ME NOT and A VINTAGE AFFAIR, which spent six months in the Amazon contemporary Fiction Top 100 and was an Amazon Book of the Year for 2009. Her latest novel, THE VERY PICTURE OF YOU will be published by HarperCollins in September 2011.
In her fiction Isabel expertly blends pathos with humour to create novels that, while being page-turning, commercial reads are also extremely well-written, engaging, poignant and uplifting. She has been shortlisted for the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award (2004) and for the American Libraries Association Reading List - Women’s Fiction (2011).
Before becoming a novelst Isabel was a successful broadcaster and journalist, writing for The Spectator, Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and the Independent on Sunday. She has presented radio programmes on BBC World Service and on Radio 4, and was a regular newspaper reviewer on BBC Breakfast news. Isabel lives in London with her family.