The best of these stories ask pertinent questions of our modern world
Winterson’s personal experiences – a friend’s face on a computer screen, a vision of her terminally ill grandmother in the garden, the presence of a woman on the second floor of her Georgian house in a historic part of London – are deftly described and pleasingly unsentimental, reminiscent of Hilary Mantel’s memoir Giving up the Ghost. “I have never ‘seen’ a ghost, only felt their emphatic presence,” writes Winterson. “I do want to stress this; there is no vagueness about it.
These sections are so enjoyable that occasionally the stories suffer by comparison, feeling less tangible, to use Winterson’s word, because of course, they are. Nearly all of them are written in the first person, with a mix of past and present tenses that works to obscure the timelines and connections of the living and the dead. The best of the stories ask pertinent questions of our modern world, riffing on technological advances, particularly the largely undiscovered country of AI.
Under the headings Places and Visitations, there is room for plenty of Gothic tropes, from haunted Scottish castles to treacherous weather, filthy rivers, isolated settings of ruined grandeur, even items of clothing with deadly impulses. But the collection’s standout story comes under People, the moving No Ghost Ghost Story about a bereaved man, Simon, and his partner William, who is damned to watch his lover’s suffering back on earth.
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