A Life Everlasting

Proof copy. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 278, [4 (blank)]. Illustrated wraps.

Author's debut novel. A centuries-spanning ghost story, narrated from beyond the grave. "A Life Everlasting recounts the story of Dr James Mallen, a sought-after surgeon-midwife who died on the banks of the Thames in 1785. Who was the assailant who crushed his skull? And why, 40 years on, must the doctor still search for a former patient, Augusta Corney, the beautiful wife of an MP? As Mallen's spirit ponders the answers to these and other questions, Hearn keeps up an invigorating pace in an atmospheric slice of capital history reminiscent of Rose Tremain's Restoration." –The Guardian