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The Ghost Lake

By: Wendy Pratt
Narrated by: Wendy Pratt
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'Remarkable'OBSERVER

'Deeply profound… this is no ordinary memoir' THE TIMES

‘Astounding’ ADAM FARRER

‘Brave and luminous’ SARAH LANGFORD

‘Mesmerising’ POLLY ATKIN

‘Beautifully written’ YORKSHIRE POST

‘Steadfastly honest’ GEOGRAPHICAL

A memoir of grief, nature and ancestry in rural Yorkshire.

I am setting out on a pilgrimage through an ancient landscape.

I will begin at my daughter’s grave.

Paleolake Flixton is an extinct lake in North Yorkshire. Human occupation of the site dates back thousands of years, but today, all that is left is a watermark.

Wendy Pratt brings readers on a pilgrimage around its periphery, to locations that have acted as journey markers in her own life. While traversing forests and fenland, she finds refuge in nature.

The Ghost Lake is a lyrical meditation on local history, changing landscapes, and the lives and legacies of rural working-class people.

©2024 Wendy Pratt (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers Ecosystems & Habitats Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science Women Haunted

Critic reviews

'Wendy Pratt has created a shimmering, liminal space of loss that lifts us up and carries us with such tenderness and beauty that we come out the other side transformed' VICTORIA BENNETT, ALL MY WILD MOTHERS

'A fascinating, haunting pilgrimage through a personal and collective past. In The Ghost Lake, Pratt embarks on a moving exploration through the ages, excavating clues as to what it means to be alive, to be human, to belong' JADE ANGELES FITTON, HERMIT

'From the tender rituals of caring for her daughter’s grave to her thoughtful exploration of nearby burial chambers, Wendy Pratt interlaces the strands of her life to form a moving memoir of finding belonging. The Ghost Lake invokes the generative power of setting your own creative path through life and illustrates the importance of attuning to nature' SALLY HUBAND
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