Lost

Resumen del libro

Winifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival, she finds that her stepcousin and old friend John Comestor has disappeared, and a ghostly presence seems to have taken over his home. Is the spirit Winnie's great-great-grandfather, who, family legend claims, was Charles Dickens's childhood inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge? Could it be the ghostly remains of Jack the Ripper? Or a phantasm derived from a more arcane and insidious origin? Winnie begins to investigate and finds herself the unwilling audience for a drama of specters and shades some from her family's peculiar history and some from her own unvanquished past.

Biografía del autor

Gregory Maguire es doctor en Literatura Inglesa y Americana por la Universidad Tufts. Ha ocupado el primer puesto en la lista de más vendidos de The New York Times con Wicked. Memorias de una bruja mala x{0026} x02013;la revisión de El mago de Oz, el amado clásico de L. Frank Baum, en la que se basa el exitoso musical de Broadwayx{0026} x02013;. También es autor de Hijo de bruja y Un león entre hombres. En 2024, se estrena la primera parte de Wicked, la esperada adaptación cinematográfica del musical protagonizada por Ariana Grande y Cynthia Erivo.<br> Maguire ha dado conferencias sobre arte, literatura y cultura tanto en su país como en el extranjero.<br> Tiene tres hijos adoptivos y está casado con el pintor Andy Newman.