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It's simple really. After years of hunting ghosts in California for a living, Jay Richards is pretty damn tired of the whole business. His life is full of jokers and hoaxers, swindlers and sceptics - and that's just his clients. If only Jay could think of something else to do, he would do it- Things soon get even more problematic for Jay when he's hired by heiress Zelda Smiling to investigate a possible haunting at Willoughby, her family's ancestral home and residence of her glamorous twin sister, Helena. For a start, Helena broke Jay's heart years before, a fact that inevitably brings about its own complications. Worse, Helena seems to have left her husband and run off with a lover although this doesn't stop Jay from thinking that she's been murdered. Is our hapless hero just bitter and paranold? Or are his suspicions reasonable? And is any of this connected with the spectral figure that seems to be staiking the corridors of the sprawling mansion each night in Helena's absence? Set variously on the streets of San Francisco, Ibiza's shimmering beaches and in the murky swamplands of North Carolina, The Smiling Affair is at once a gripping supernatural thriller, a sharp satire on the lives of the rich and idle, an atmospheric murder-mystery and a bewitching story about lost love.
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Review:
A masterful first novel -- Sunday Sport, June 19, 2005
A supernatural homage to The Great Gatsby -- Daily Mirror, June 10, 2005
A taut, compelling, thickly atmospheric and old-fashioned thriller... evokes Agatha Christie and F Scott Fitzgerald -- Metro, June 2, 2005
It's a good'un... A haunting, hugely accomplished Great Gatsby-esque tale -- Esquire, July 2005
Sheldon's debut novel adds an intriguing modern twist to the traditional country house murder -- Daily Mail, June 24, 2005
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A supernatural homage to The Great Gatsby -- Daily Mirror, June 10, 2005
A taut, compelling, thickly atmospheric and old-fashioned thriller... evokes Agatha Christie and F Scott Fitzgerald -- Metro, June 2, 2005
It's a good'un... A haunting, hugely accomplished Great Gatsby-esque tale -- Esquire, July 2005
Sheldon's debut novel adds an intriguing modern twist to the traditional country house murder -- Daily Mail, June 24, 2005
A bewitching first novel by the author of the highly praised story collection The Comfort Zone.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0224062816
- ISBN 13 9780224062817
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages480
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