Night Side of the River
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Description
'Spine-chillingly good' iNEWS
'Winterson the artist at her most potent' GUARDIAN
Our lives are now digital, exposed and always-on. We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and innovated. 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.
'Engrossing... A must-read' ELLE
'Playful and poignant' OBSERVER
'Captivating and chilling' DAILY EXPRESS
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3.75 I previously read “Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit”, so I was excited to get my hands on a Winterson ghost story collection. But it’s always hard to give one singular rating to a collection. While there were some stories I loved, parts that dissected grief and loss and dying in an interesting way, unfortunately some other stories didn’t particularly touch me. The book is divided into different sections based on type of haunting. One of these is titled “Devices”, and as you can imagine deals with the question of haunting in a digital age. I was looking forward to this at first, but they felt a little flat to me. Doesn’t help that “Devices” is the first part of this book… All in all, I like Winterson’s characterisation and prose, but this felt a little simple (?) compared to the other novel of hers I read. But despite the simplicity it was a fun read! If you read anything from here, please let it be the two interconnected short stories “No Ghost Ghost Story” and “The Undiscovered Country”! I teared up reading these.
Description
'Spine-chillingly good' iNEWS
'Winterson the artist at her most potent' GUARDIAN
Our lives are now digital, exposed and always-on. We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and innovated. 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.
'Engrossing... A must-read' ELLE
'Playful and poignant' OBSERVER
'Captivating and chilling' DAILY EXPRESS
Book Information
Posts
3.75 I previously read “Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit”, so I was excited to get my hands on a Winterson ghost story collection. But it’s always hard to give one singular rating to a collection. While there were some stories I loved, parts that dissected grief and loss and dying in an interesting way, unfortunately some other stories didn’t particularly touch me. The book is divided into different sections based on type of haunting. One of these is titled “Devices”, and as you can imagine deals with the question of haunting in a digital age. I was looking forward to this at first, but they felt a little flat to me. Doesn’t help that “Devices” is the first part of this book… All in all, I like Winterson’s characterisation and prose, but this felt a little simple (?) compared to the other novel of hers I read. But despite the simplicity it was a fun read! If you read anything from here, please let it be the two interconnected short stories “No Ghost Ghost Story” and “The Undiscovered Country”! I teared up reading these.