- Fiction, Conservation and restoration, Dwellings, Fiction, thrillers
In a house he is restoring, builder Don Lark meets a woman squatter who turns out to be a ghost. But Sylvie Delaney does not realize she is a ghost, thinking she is alive. Lark learns she was murdered and goes searching for the killer.
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Classical in form, earnest, contemporary and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Orson Scott Card
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 448
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, HarperTorch, Audible
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060176556
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“Dr. Calhoun Bellamy made it a point to stay away from his property while the crew was tearing down the old Varley house.”
Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years.
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