Claire's holiday with friends, one a teenage ghostThis week there’s a novel set in Nazi-occupied Vienna and another historical novel about pirate Anne Bonny. The Two Loves of Sophie Strom, Sam Taylor, Faber, €16.99In 1933, young Max, an Austrian Jew, is caught in a house fire. Thirty years on, Lou is now an established and respected academic and has long ago put the past behind her. But secrets have a way of surfacing and Lou is called as a witness in a new lawsuit against the school. The supernatural is treated the same as the everyday and ordinary, and not all ghosts here are a threat in Claire’s world.

Source: Irish Independent June 29, 2024 14:38 UTC