{"product_id":"poor-ghost-3","title":"Poor Ghost!","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Place, belonging, failure, ambition: this beguilingly readable novel has interesting, fresh things to say on them all'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWendy Erskine, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Benefactors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A moving meditation on inheritance and home'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Acidly funny'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLuca is back in Manchester, returning from Harvard with little more than a broken heart and a  failed academic career. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesperate for money and still clinging to his literary dreams, he finds work as a ghost writer. Andy, a local man with a colourful history, wants Luca to write his story. But the assignment is a personal one: Andy has the same condition Luca's dad suffered from, before he took his own life.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, balancing his artistic ambitions with Andy's demands, Luca must confront the past he thought he'd escaped, and the failures that have led him back home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Gabriel Flynn's work, rich with insight and wit, makes the world newly vivid'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClaire Messud, author of \u003ci\u003eThis Strange Eventful History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A brilliantly simple idea and compellingly complicated characters'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAidan Cottrell-Boyce, author of \u003ci\u003eThe End of Nightwork\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56414675894616,"sku":"9781399740777","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781399740777.jpg?v=1779430543","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/poor-ghost-3","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}