Ghost Stories A memoir

<p><h3>One of the most anticipated books of 2026 for the <i>Guardian,</i> <i>Observer </i>and BBC Culture</h3><Br><h4>'A remarkable achievement'<Br>LOUISE KENNEDY</p><p>'A deeply moving memoir, raw with loss, yet luminous with love'<Br>SARAH WATERS</p><p>'What a kind, honest book. What a gift of love'<Br>DAVID MITCHELL</p><p>'Essential reading from an all-time great'<Br>SARA COLLINS<Br>The tender memoir of the forty-three years Siri Hustvedt spent with her husband, writer, poet and filmmaker Paul Auster - from their first encounter in 1980s New York to his death in 2024</h4><Br><i>Ghost Stories</i> is Siri Hustvedt's most personal work yet, a searing and intimate meditation on grief, memory and enduring love, written in the aftermath of the death of her husband, writer, poet and filmmaker Paul Auster.</p><p>It is a patchwork-quilt book that stitches together memories from over forty years of love and life together: journal entries Siri wrote between November 2023 and 3 May 2024, the day of Paul's funeral; emails Siri sent to friends during his cancer treatment; notes Paul sent her over the course of their relationship; and three love letters Siri wrote to him in 1981, when he left her for a period of nine or ten days to return to his former life with his first wife and son.</p><p>The book also contains Paul Auster's last ever piece of writing - the first thirty-five pages of what he hoped would be a small book of letters to Siri's and his grandson, Miles Auster Hustvedt Ostrander, born on 1 January 2024.</p><p>Unflinching, tender and wise, this is the full-bodied story of Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster's life together, an exploration of how grief unmoors time and how the intimacy of a shared life continues to mark the everyday.</p><p><h4>Praise for Siri Hustvedt</h4><Br>'Hustvedt is that rare artist, a writer of high intelligence, profound sensuality and a less easily definable capacity for which the only word I can find is wisdom'<Br><b>Salman Rushdie<Br></b><Br>'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear'<Br><b>Hilary Mantel</p><p></b>'She's a twenty-first-century Virginia Woolf, with many intellectual and creative rooms of her own'<Br><i><b>Literary Review</b></i></p>