A Young Man’s Story by Sarah Doudney

Description

The narrator of Sarah Doudney’s story is a young man who has kept a secret from his friends — an experience he calls, almost apologetically, supernatural. Refusing the smoky chatter of the smoking-room, he waits until he is alone with two sympathetic listeners and then tells the story between the lights, exactly as he lived it.

Doudney, the author of “The Lesson of the Water-Mill” and several well-loved novels, here works on a smaller and stranger canvas. Her tale builds its unease not from shocks but from precise domestic detail and an unshakeable voice of plain good sense. A masterclass in how Victorian fiction made the ordinary shadowed and the shadowed eerily ordinary.

Why readers still come back to it

• A perfectly paced Victorian ghost story with a genuinely uncanny atmosphere
• Told in the plain, steady voice that made Doudney a loved Victorian storyteller
• Ideal one-sitting reading for lovers of classic supernatural fiction

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