{"product_id":"9781399753852","title":"Ghost Stories : A Memoir - 'What a kind, honest book. What a gift of love' David Mitchell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eOne of the most anticipated books of 2026 for the \u003ci\u003eGuardian,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eObserver \u003c\/i\u003eand BBC Culture\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch4\u003e'A remarkable achievement'\u003cbr\u003eLOUISE KENNEDY\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A deeply moving memoir, raw with loss, yet luminous with love'\u003cbr\u003eSARAH WATERS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'What a kind, honest book.  What a gift of love'\u003cbr\u003eDAVID MITCHELL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Essential reading from an all-time great'\u003cbr\u003eSARA COLLINS\u003cbr\u003eThe tender memoir of the forty-three years Siri Hustvedt spent with her husband, writer, poet and filmmaker Paul Auster - from their first encounter in 1980s New York to his death in 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGhost Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is Siri Hustvedt's most personal work yet, a searing and intimate meditation on grief, memory and enduring love, written in the aftermath of the death of her husband, writer, poet and filmmaker Paul Auster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a patchwork-quilt book that stitches together memories from over forty years of love and life together: journal entries Siri wrote between November 2023 and 3 May 2024, the day of Paul's funeral; emails Siri sent to friends during his cancer treatment; notes Paul sent her over the course of their relationship; and three love letters Siri wrote to him in 1981, when he left her for a period of nine or ten days to return to his former life with his first wife and son.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book also contains Paul Auster's last ever piece of writing - the first thirty-five pages of what he hoped would be a small book of letters to Siri's and his grandson, Miles Auster Hustvedt Ostrander, born on 1 January 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnflinching, tender and wise, this is the full-bodied story of Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster's life together, an exploration of how grief unmoors time and how the intimacy of a shared life continues to mark the everyday.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePraise for Siri Hustvedt\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Hustvedt is that rare artist, a writer of high intelligence, profound sensuality and a less easily definable capacity for which the only word I can find is wisdom'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSalman Rushdie\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHilary Mantel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e'She's a twenty-first-century Virginia Woolf, with many intellectual and creative rooms of her own'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55732314571128,"sku":"9781399753852","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781399753852.jpg?v=1794282114","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781399753852","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}