Jo also begins to realize how little she knew about Alex, who never discussed the house and mentioned Fran’s death in 1917 in a single short line in a letter. But the more Jo looks for answers, the more convinced she becomes that Fran wasn’t suicidal nor prone to risky behavior. At the back of the book, pages have been torn out.įran was troubled by bouts of mental illness. Drawings of the house show a shadow in third floor windows.
But Jo catches glimpses of the girl’s ghost in the drawing room and inexplicably discovers Fran’s sketchbook in her bed. Left virtually penniless, Jo accepts a job as a traveling companion with Alex Mander’s aunt, Dottie Forsyth. When they return to England, Dottie offers Jo a job as her assistant.ĭottie’s home, Wych Elm House, is shadowed by the death of her 15-year-old daughter, Fran, who jumped, fell or was pushed off the roof of the three-story house. She finds herself neither wife nor widow. When Jo Manders’s husband’s airplane goes down over enemy lines, no body is found nor is he on Red Cross lists of the injured or prisoners of war (POW). In LOST AMONG THE LIVING, she combines a ghost story with a love story, a war story and a spy thriller. The world was filled with loss and dislocation. The years after the Great War are fertile ground for setting a ghost story.
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