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Ghostwalk

Rebecca Stott

Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.07 | 3784 Users | 743 Reviews

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Original Title:	Ghostwalk
ISBN:	0385521065 (ISBN13: 9780385521062)
Edition Language:	English

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Filled with evocative descriptions of Cambridge, past and present, of seventeenth-century glassmaking, alchemy, the Great Plague, and Newton’s scientific innovations, Ghostwalk centers around a real historical mystery that Rebecca Stott has uncovered involving Newton’s alchemy.

A Cambridge historian, Elizabeth Vogelsang, is found drowned, clutching a glass prism in her hand. The book she was writing about Isaac Newton’s involvement with alchemy—the culmination of her lifelong obsession with the seventeenth century—remains unfinished. When her son, Cameron, asks his former lover, Lydia Brooke, to ghostwrite the missing final chapters of his mother’s book, Lydia agrees and moves into Elizabeth’s house—a studio in an orchard where the light moves restlessly across the walls. Soon Lydia discovers that the shadow of violence that has fallen across present-day Cambridge, which escalates to a series of murders, may have its origins in the troubling evidence that Elizabeth’s research has unearthed. As Lydia becomes ensnared in a dangerous conspiracy that reawakens ghosts of the past, the seventeenth century slowly seeps into the twenty-first, with the city of Cambridge the bridge between them.

Filled with evocative descriptions of Cambridge, past and present, of seventeenth-century glassmaking, alchemy, the Great Plague, and Newton’s scientific innovations, Ghostwalk centers around a real historical mystery that Rebecca Stott has uncovered involving Newton’s alchemy. In it, time and relationships are entangled—the present with the seventeenth century, and figures from the past with the love-torn twenty-first century woman who is trying to discover their secrets. A stunningly original display of scholarship and imagination, and a gripping story of desire and obsession, Ghostwalk is a rare debut that will change the way most of us think about scientific innovation, the force of history, and time itself.

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Title	:	Ghostwalk
Author	:	Rebecca Stott
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	May 8th 2007 by Spiegel & Grau
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Mystery. Paranormal. Ghosts

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So ridiculous I promptly forgot it. I'm growing weary of the DaVinci-bred "it's about smart people so it must be a smart book" genre. Zero suspense, a creaky supernatural subplot, lots of Cambridge history... and animal rights terrorists? If they were worth the energy, I'd spend more time enumerating the shortcomings of the vain, humorless protagonist and her scumbucket boyfriend.

Well, that was different. In theory, this book should have been my jam. The story opens with Elizabeth Vogelsang being found dead in a river near her Cambridge home, clutching a glass prism in her hand. Elizabeth is a 17th-century scholar who specializes in Isaac Newton, and her death interrupts her work on a book exploring Newton's interest in alchemy. Elizabeth's son, Cameron, recruits Lydia Brooke (a writer, friend of Elizabeth, and Cameron's former lover) to ghost-write the rest of



A modern-day mystery rooted in the history of science -- specifically in Isaac Newton's Cambridge career, with the emphasis on his alchemical researches? Oh, yes. As you can imagine, this book had sold itself to me before I was halfway through the blurb's first paragraph.And I wasn't to be disappointed. To be sure, the plot became a bit Dan Brownish toward the end, but the book as a whole is so beautifully written, and had so completely enmeshed me by then, that I was prepared to overlook the

This started out very promising. I usually love the 17th Century, Cambridge, Newton, alchemists. But then (view spoiler)[the medium showed up, and the ghost, and the conspiracies, and... (hide spoiler)] and it all went downhill from there. And, quibble! Why are the scholars in this story calling the last book of the Bible "Revelations?" Three times. Yes, I counted. It's Revelation. Just the one. Even Wikipedia says so.

I expected a fascinating ghost story, literary, with mysterious murders, and the past coming back to haunt. Intelligent and historical, yes. And its full of atmospheric descriptions that I liked. However, the main character Lydia Brooke, speaking in the first person point of view (Ive been back four times, I said.) but then telling the other main character, Cameron (her ex-lover), what he said, presenting his dialogue by using the pronoun you to name the speaker. So instead of he said or Cameron

Meh. A lot of atmosphere, but ultimately, it was too murky for me. The ghost story part of the plot didnt convince and the modern conspiracy involving the scientist lover of the narrator was flat. I felt like the author wanted these two mysteries to intensify each other, but instead, they functioned like conflicting wavelengths that flattened each other out.