GHOST TRAILS
Sunday Times Best Selling Author Isabel Wolff, (whose novels include The Very Picture of You, A Vintage Affair and The Trials of Tiffany Trott), has come up trumps again with Ghostwritten.
When Jenni Clark agrees to ghost write the memoirs of Klara, a survivor of Japan’s Second World War internment camps, she is unprepared for the coincidences and parallels they will find in each other’s lives. Born decades apart, both women have suffered the agony of loss and the crushing burden of guilt yet while Klara is reconciled to her past Jenni has yet to face up to hers. The future happiness that lies so tantalisingly within her reach is dependent on whether she can free herself from the childhood trauma that has followed her into adulthood. Is there a way out of the emotional darkness, or is Jenni fated to spend the rest of her life shadowed by regret?
Although Isabel Wolff is known as a writer of Chick Lit novels, it’s a label that doesn’t do justice to her talent. Ghostwritten is a harrowing, beautifully told story that explores the resilience of the human spirit while throwing a powerful, disturbing light on one of the most brutal and shameful episodes of World War 2.
Reviewed by Juliette Foster
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