Ghosting

• Jennie Erdal set a benchmark for candour and wisdom when she wrote about her 15-year association with Niam Attallah in the brilliant memoir Ghosting. Independent * A little masterpiece about a relationship, superbly written in a down to earth style, and as enjoyable as a good novel. Sunday Times * If this were simply a ghost-and-tell book, it would be of interest only to a very limited number of the London literati. But it is much, much more than that; it is a beautifully composed memoir; sometimes rather desperate, sometimes very funny, of an extraordinary symbiotic relationship between two very different people. – Craig Brown Mail On Sunday * Jennie Erdal has written a book that is hugely enjoyable to read, touches on profound questions about language and writing and provides a vivid and often affectionate, but fairly merciless, portrait of an exasperating, despotic, self-deluding but in the end likable figure, with the tantrums of a small child and the plumage of a peacock. – Caroline Moorehead Spectator

Jennie Erdal worked as an editor and translator for many years. Ghosting, the first book published under her own name, was shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book Award and the J.R. Ackerley Prize; it was also a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.