TY - BOOK AU - StJames,Simone TI - Lost among the living SN - 9780451476197 AV - PR9199.4.S726 L67 2016 U1 - 813/.6 23 PY - 2016/// KW - Families KW - England KW - Fiction KW - Family secrets KW - Gothic fiction KW - gsafd KW - Mystery fiction KW - Ghost stories KW - Historical fiction N1 - Includes readers guide; Includes excerpt from the author's forthcoming book: The broken girls (pages 325-337) N2 - "England, 1921. Three years after her husband, Alex, disappeared, shot down over Germany, Jo Manders still mourns his loss. Working as a paid companion to Alex's wealthy, condescending aunt, Dottie Forsyth, Jo travels to the family's estate in the Sussex countryside. But there is much she never knew about her husband's origins and the revelation of a mysterious death in the Forsyths' past is just the beginning. All is not well at Wych Elm House. Dottie's husband is distant, and her son was grievously injured in the war. Footsteps follow Jo down empty halls, and items in her bedroom are eerily rearranged. The locals say the family is cursed, and that a ghost in the woods has never rested. And when Jo discovers her husband's darkest secrets, she wonders if she ever really knew him. Isolated in a place of deception and grief, she must find the truth or lose herself forever. And then a familiar stranger arrives at Wych Elm House."-- ER -