The Classic English Ghost Story

Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House. The house stands at the end of a causeway, wreathed in fog and mystery, but it is not until he glimpses a wasted young woman, dressed all in black, at the funeral, that a creeping sense of unease begins to take hold, a feeling deepened by the reluctance of the locals to talk of the woman in black and her terrible purpose.

Susan Hill has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and the Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. She was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Honours. Her novels includeStrange Meeting,Im the King of the Castle,In the Springtime of the YearandA Kind Man. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as theSimon Serraillerseries of crime novels. The play of her ghost storyThe Woman in Blackhas been running in Londons West End since 1988. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.

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