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Excerpt

You can read a short excerpt from The Ghost in the House on the Penguin Random House site here. The book is published next Tuesday and I may not sleep between now and then.

Haunted Dollhouses

While writing The Ghost in the House I was also working on a picture book set in a dollhouse (to be published next year). Rumer Godden, author of The Dolls' House, wrote: "It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to...

Blithe Spirit

Blithe Spirit, is a David Lean film based on the No��l Coward play of the same name, both of which are brilliant but also quite blithely male in their perspective. At the centre of the story is Charles Condomine, novelist...

The Ghost in the House Audiobook

The audiobook version of The Ghost in the House will be published on July 7. The book is narrated by Athena Karkanis who brings a warm, intelligent and droll quality to the character. Very grateful to Sonia Vaillant and ...

Useful Books

Here are just a few of the books on writing and craft that I found useful while working on The Ghost in the House.

Grandmothers

While I was working on The Ghost in the House, my agent Jackie Kaiser noticed there was quite a bit about grandmothers and asked if I'd ever thought of doing a picture book about a grandmother. And this is that book.

What to Wear When You're Dead

One of the things that I found endlessly diverting while writing The Ghost in the House was thinking about what my poor ghost would be wearing. It struck me that it could be that you'd be stuck for eternity wearing whate...

Room For All

Did a little interview with the nice people over at Lantana Publishing about A Family is a Family is a Family.  You can read it here.

I also did one for Pride and Less Prejudice, which you can find here.

Short Novels

This started out as a short list of short novels I have known and loved. It keeps getting longer but that's fine with me, because I am looking for justification for having written a short novel myself. I'm also trying to...

Book Designer Kelly Hill

One of the more thrilling aspects of publishing a novel is seeing your book cover for the first time. But what you don't always see is the face behind the book's design. I was thrilled to learn that Kelly Hill would be d...