The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story

"In 1938, Alma Fielding, a 34-year-old housewife in London, told the press that a poltergeist invaded her home. Nandor Fodor, a Jewish Hungarian immigrant working for the International Institute for Psychical Research, spent the next several months investigating the strange activity in Fielding’s home. These two intriguing figures are at the center of Kate Summerscale’s excellent narrative, a ghost story that is also about women and power, the anxiety of the unknown and the ways people (consciously or unconsciously) behave in order to escape certain aspects of their lives."