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'This new novel is a real heart-squeezer. Beautiful, one of a kind and perfectly titled' - Matt Berninger of The National

'An overwhelmingly beautiful love story. This book will make you cry' – Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated

'Genuinely powerful' - The Irish Times

A gorgeous modern love story about the lives that change us, and the loves that haunt us. Set over twenty years, August Thompson's debut Anyone’s Ghost will break your heart.

It took three car crashes to kill Jake.

The lonely life of fifteen-year-old Theron David Alden is transformed when he meets Jake. Older, cooler, more confident and startlingly beautiful, Jake likes the same bands, the same drugs, and has the same drive to oblivion.

Over the course of two decades, Theron and Jake get high, drift apart, and are brought hurtling back together, until a final c

Anyones Ghost

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    A Hardback by August Thompson

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      Publisher Pan Macmillan
      Published 7 November 2024
      ISBN-13 9781035034086
      978-1035034086
      ISBN-10 1035034085
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      Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      'This new novel is a real heart-squeezer. Beautiful, one of a kind and perfectly titled' - Matt Berninger of The National

      'An overwhelmingly beautiful love story. This book will make you cry' – Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated

      'Genuinely powerful' - The Irish Times

      A gorgeous modern love story about the lives that change us, and the loves that haunt us. Set over twenty years, August Thompson's debut Anyone’s Ghost will break your heart.

      It took three car crashes to kill Jake.

      The lonely life of fifteen-year-old Theron David Alden is transformed when he meets Jake. Older, cooler, more confident and startlingly beautiful, Jake likes the same bands, the same drugs, and has the same drive to oblivion.

      Over the course of two decades, Theron and Jake get high, drift apart, and are brought hurtling back together, until a final c

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