Simon Wroe's second novel imagines a London where the dead return each autumn for thirty days, folding mortality into the rhythms of ordinary life. It is a book less concerned with the supernatural than with the deeply human question of how we continue living when loss becomes routine. Through four characters — a child, a teacher, an heir, and a woman without shelter — Wroe asks whether grief ever truly becomes ordinary, or whether we simply learn to dress it in different clothes.
Wroe's 'Ghost Month' offers witty, uneven meditation on grief and loss
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