Poor Ghost!

<p><b>'Place, belonging, failure, ambition: this beguilingly readable novel has interesting, fresh things to say on them all'</b><br>Wendy Erskine, author of <i>The Benefactors</i><br><br><b>'A moving meditation on inheritance and home'</b><br><i>Esquire</i><br><br><b>'Acidly funny'</b><br><i>TLS</i><br><br>Luca is back in Manchester, returning from Harvard with little more than a broken heart and a failed academic career. <br><br>Desperate for money and still clinging to his literary dreams, he finds work as a ghost writer. Andy, a local man with a colourful history, wants Luca to write his story. But the assignment is a personal one: Andy has the same condition Luca's dad suffered from, before he took his own life. <br><br>Now, balancing his artistic ambitions with Andy's demands, Luca must confront the past he thought he'd escaped, and the failures that have led him back home.<br><br><b>'Gabriel Flynn's work, rich with insight and wit, makes the world newly vivid'</b><br>Claire Messud, author of <i>This Strange Eventful History</i><br><br><b>'A brilliantly simple idea and compellingly complicated characters'</b><br>Aidan Cottrell-Boyce, author of <i>The End of Nightwork</i></p>