2024/174: The Winter Ghosts — Kate Mosse

2024/174: The Winter Ghosts — Kate Mosse

...it made perfect sense to me how I, a man who for so many years had walked the line between the quick and the dead, might be able to hear their voices in the silence when others could not... [loc. 1833]

The bulk of this short novel is Freddie Watson's first-person account of an evening in the small village of Nulle, in south-west France: it's framed by events in 1933 (five years after that evening at the fête de Saint-Étienne), when Freddie is recounting his story to an antiquarian bookseller, explaining the provenance of a document written in medieval Occitan.

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