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Anyone's Ghost

By: August Thompson
Narrated by: Lee Osorio
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The gorgeous, devastating must-read queer love story of the summer.

'It should be placed alongside modern love stories such as Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow'– Crack

IT TOOK THREE CAR CRASHES TO KILL JAKE

The first crash. New Hampshire. Teenagers Theron and Jake meet in the heat of the summer. Jake is everything Theron wants to be – hot, cool, interesting. Drunk in Jake’s van on their last night together, they hurtle off a dirt road at 2am.

The second crash. New York City. Jake and Theron have drifted apart, but when they are reunited in the midst of a hurricane, they are both forever changed.

The third crash. Texas. Driving on a lonely highway, Jake finds the oblivion he has always been chasing in one final collision, and Theron is left to grapple with the ghosts of their past.

August Thompson's debut Anyone's Ghost is

'Genuinely powerful' - The Irish Times

'Electric' - Vogue

'A beautiful exploration of the all-encompassing nature of friendship, specifically male friendship, and the devastating speed at which grief can derail your life' - Service95

'This book will make you cry' – Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated

©2024 August Thompson (P)2024 Macmillan Publishers International Limited Coming of Age Contemporary Friendship Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Haunted Ghost

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This story beautifully encapsulated those incredibly strong and intense emotions that come from relationships like Theron's and Jake's that can't really be labelled. The honesty and truth in the story shows that the author knows these emotions himself, I can't imagine you can write about them so accurately other wise.

Raw, poignant and beautiful

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I feel like I would have enjoyed this book better if I’d read it rather than listened to it. The narrator’s droning tones and inflections at the end of a sentence as if he’s continously asking a question was a real slog. Not enough to not finish this book, but enough to not fully embrace it. Also no character development whatsoever. Things happen, Theron whines and wallows in self-pity, things happen and it’s back to pining & whining. Not for me.

Flat narrator

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