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An author working on a bio of Isaac Newton drowns in Rebecca Stott's Ghostwalk, and Lydia Brooke steps in to finish the book, rekindling a tortuous love affair and embroiling herself in a web of 17th-century intrigue and sinister modern shenanigans.
Smarty-pants line
''The smell of oysters is an objective correlative for sexual repression.''
The Lowdown
Intense, intelligent, but overwrought, Stott's novel is a real slog. C+
Posted May 04, 2007
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