The Ghost at the Table
A Novel
Published on 2. November 2007
304 pages
978-1-56512-661-9 (ISBN)
Description
Strikingly different since childhood and leading dissimilar lives now, sisters Frances and Cynthia have managed to remain "devoted"--as long as they stay on opposite coasts. When Frances arranges to host Thanksgiving at her idyllic New England farmhouse, she envisions a happy family reunion, one that will include the sisters' long-estranged father. Cynthia, however, doesn't understand how Frances can ignore the past their father's presence revives, a past that includes suspicions about their mother's death twenty-five years earlier. As Thanksgiving Day arrives, with a houseful of guests looking forward to dinner, the sisters continue to struggle with different versions of a shared past, their conflict escalating to a dramatic, suspenseful climax.
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Suzanne Berne
The Ghost at the Table
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Suzanne Berne is the author of three novels, the first of which, A Crime in the Neighborhood, won great Britain's Orange Prize. Her most recent novel is The Ghost at the Table. She lives with her family near Boston and teaches at Boston College.
Content
- Cover
- The GHOST at the TABLE
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- What I Don't Know about Mark Twain: A SHORT NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
- Readers' Group Questions and Topics for Discussion
- Other Algonquin Readers Round Table Novels
