Night Side of the River : Dazzling new ghost stories from the Sunday Times bestseller - Jeanette Winterson

Night Side of the River

Dazzling new ghost stories from the Sunday Times bestseller

By: Jeanette Winterson

Paperback | 3 October 2023

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The genre-bending and masterful new collection of ghost stories from Jeanette Winterson

The genre-bending and masterful new collection of ghost stories from Jeanette Winterson

A ghost has no substance, but it has power - and presence - and it can appear in alternative forms. In the metaverse, we are all alternative forms. The Dead will join us.


'Always passionate and provocative'
NEW STATESMAN

'The best living writer in this language'
EVENING STANDARD

Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips.

We know everything about our world. But we know nothing about theirs.

We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and innovated, found new channels to reach us. They inhabit our apps and wander the metaverse just as they haunt our homes and our memories, always seeking new ways to connect.

To live amongst us.

To remind us.

To tempt us.

To take their revenge.

These stories are not ours to tell. They are the stories of the dead - of those we've lost, loved, forgotten... and feared. Some are fiction. But some may not be.

About the Author

Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. Adopted by Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and didn't work out. Discovering early the power of books she left home at sixteen to live in a Mini and get on with her education. After graduating from Oxford University she worked for a while in the theatre and published her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, at twenty-five. Over two decades later she revisited that material in her internationally bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Winterson has written thirteen novels for adults and two previous collections of short stories, as well as children's books, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.
Industry Reviews
Many consider her to be the best living writer in this language * Evening Standard *

Winterson is always passionate and provocative * New Statesman *

A fascinating and engrossing look at AI, science, gender fluidity and, ultimately, what it really means to be human -- Nicola Sturgeon

Packed with charm and beautifully illustrated, it's a book that will solve your gift dilemmas and let you escape the less salubrious aspects of Christmas for a literary wonderland * Stylist, praise for Christmas Days *

Thought provoking and necessary * Guardian, praise for 12 Bytes *

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