# A Jealous Ghost

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- Book: [A Jealous Ghost](https://www.bookquiver.com/an-wilson/a-jealous-ghost) ([A Jealous Ghost.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/an-wilson/a-jealous-ghost.md))
- Authors: [A.N. Wilson](https://www.bookquiver.com/an-wilson)
- Publisher: arrow
- ISBN: 978-00-9947-866-9
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2006-03-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

There is something rather disquieting about Sallie Declan, a young American in London, and it is not just her obsession with Henry James's The Turn of the Screw , the subject of her PhD thesis. There is her decision, almost casually taken, to leave her studies for a temporary job as a nanny in a large country house. She seems to display astonishing naivety as she build a fantasy about her emotional future there. Surely she can see it is all delusion? But a progressively darker reality unfolds as we are led inexorably towards a terrible and shocking climax.