With a fresh start ahead of them in their new house on the south coast, Agatha and Paddy have everything to look forward to. But when the builders move out and they move in, their lives have changed. A personal tragedy threatens to destroy all they have carefully built up and only a small miracle, it seems, will save them. Ghost Story speaks of love and pain, intimacy and estrangement. Inspired by events in the author's life- themselves the subject of the non-fiction 'perface' to the book- this is an honest and intensely emotional exploration of what it means to love and to mourn. It is Toby Litt's finest novel to date.