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The Night of All Souls
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Edith Wharton returns- spirited, brilliant, alive.

About the Author

Wellington writer Philippa Swan trained as a landscape architect, with degrees from Otago and Melbourne. Her nonfiction book, Life (and Death) in a Small City Garden, was published in 2001 to critical acclaim. In 2006 her award-winning short story 'Life Coach' was selected for the NZ Book Month publication The Six Pack. Another, more recent story was selected for the LitCrawl short story competition. She has been a freelance writer for a number of lifestyle magazines for over 15 years, including a columnist for NZ Gardener and Cuisine magazines.

'Philippa Swan's is an original voice that is articulate, humorous and disarmingly refreshing.' - NZ Books

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"​There's a story within a story as well, as her former publisher (also long-dead, but don't ask!) has sent her a novella proposed for publication, which features a modern woman volunteering at Edith's old home, The Mount in Massachusetts, then visiting Italy in Edith's footsteps. A most unusual story, if a little slow to establish itself, but worth the effort." -- Good Reading Magazine

"Philippa Swan's erudite homage takes a page from Wharton's unheralded ghost stories: the author is resurrected in an anteroom to the afterlife, and given a novella about a woman who works at the Wharton museum in Massachusetts. Edith must decide whether to publish or burn the work, revisiting her own writing in the process. It may have the trappings of a ghost story, but the most appealing element of Swan's novel is its submerged literary appreciation of Wharton's oeuvre, delivered in tandem with lively elements of biography, and shades of the wit and style for which Wharton was renowned." --Sydney Morning Herald

In this wildly imaginative novel, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Edith Wharton (1862-1937), long dead, finds herself in a warm, atmospherically lit drawing room, waiting to see who will join her for the evening. . . . A refreshing, absorbing novel. . . . Wharton is newly minted within these pages, finally broken free of the constraints of the society in which she lived. --NZ Herald

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