No Ghosts Publisher / Europa Editions nine-year-old Mary Lennox finds a

nine-year-old Mary Lennox finds a walled-in garden that has been locked securely for years

fixing broken zips and even handwashing underwear

and what Young describes as an 'ethical responsibility' towards the past

Wise women

the pages reveal the deep-rooted connections between human beings and our natural world: the form and colours of a Georgia O'Keeffe painting of a shell echo a carved fossil from 500

No Ghosts Publisher / Europa Editions nine-year-old Mary Lennox finds aBy Max Lury 'No Ghosts' is a startling debut which plumbs the undercurrents of feeling that pool beneath our use of emergent technologies, to ask what new forms haunting might take. Told with a sinister precision, it dramatises the abstraction and unreality that increasingly define our everyday lives, and marks the arrival of a major new literary novelist. Kieran and Harlow's best friend Annie disappeared a year ago. And now, so have the ghosts. After