Night Side of the River

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A masterful and eerie collection of ghost stories from Sunday Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson

Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips.

We know everything about our world. But we know nothing about theirs.

We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and innovated, found new channels to reach us. They inhabit our apps and wander the metaverse just as they haunt our homes and our memories, always seeking new ways to connect.

To live amongst us.

To remind us.

To tempt us.

To take their revenge.

These stories are not ours to tell. They are the stories of the dead - of those we've lost, loved, forgotten... and feared. Some are fiction. But some may not be.

©2023 Jeanette Winterson (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Critics Review

  • I loved Night Side of the River. Jeanette Winterson is one of the wittiest writers around today… I can’t think of any other writer who can treat death and horror with such lightheartedness and pragmatic cheerfulness but without losing the cold-yet-cosy frisson that comes with all the best ghost stories. MR James would be very happy!

    Natasha Pulley, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

  • Spine-chillingly good

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  • In these enjoyable tales Winterson has ably served the genre, while also sketching some unsettling future directions the ghost story might take

    Literary Review

  • Many consider her to be the best living writer in this language

    Evening Standard

  • Winterson is always passionate and provocative

    New Statesman

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