Ghost Stories

A truly wonderful book. Hustvedt’s gift is to be able to write about the most searing of emotions with extraordinary insight, measure and beauty. The result is a deeply moving memoir, raw with loss, yet luminous with love. – Sarah Waters, author of FingersmithGhost Stories is a year of grief spun into wise, truthful gold. What a kind, honest book. What a gift of love. – David Mitchell, author of Cloud AtlasAll love stories must end as ghost stories. So we are reminded in Siri Hustvedt’s tremendously moving portrait of a man, a marriage, and the joys and sorrows of a shared artistic life. Love and grief lie, inseparable, on every page. This is essential reading from an all-time great. – Sara Collins, author of The Confessions of Frannie LangtonTender, elegiac and erudite, Ghost Stories is a paean to love and to its ultimate expression - grief. A remarkable achievement – Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses

Siri Hustvedt is the author of seven novels, five collections of essays, a poetry collection and a memoir. Her books have been listed for major prizes, including the Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize and the PEN America Literary Award. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and has been awarded honorary PhDs from Johannes Gutenberg University, Stendhal University and the University of Oslo. She is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and has written on art for the New York Times and the Daily Telegraph. Born in Minnesota, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.