


His postwar passion finds him writing travel books-as dry and academic as he can make them-about various haunted sites in England, but his interest is piqued by the case of a haunted barn in the small village of Waringstoke a young maidservant hanged herself in her employer’s barn and has been making mischief and threats ever since, most recently terrorizing a local vicar when he is called to perform an exorcism. According to her former employer, Mrs. Sarah Piper, a self-proclaimed modern woman living in London, finds herself living a ghost story in this post–World War I tale.Ī temp agency offers Sarah a job with a mysterious, handsome writer, Alistair Gellis, who carries scars from the recent Great War.
