Found: Mid 2000s Mystery - boy (in Australia?) gets mysterious pen pal letters from girl who puts off meeting him

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Found: Mid 2000s Mystery - boy (in Australia?) gets mysterious pen pal letters from girl who puts off meeting him

1Lance.Ashdown
toukokuu 17, 2023, 10:21 pm

As I remember the novel, a boy starts a correspondence with a girl in England. He wants to meet her, but she is elusive and keeps putting it off. Does she exist? He then goes to England, I think, and tries to find her. There was one horror subplot in a library where a doll (?) is trying to kill someone. My memory is that the book mostly consists of letters and short stories. It ends with a weird scene having to do with someone electrocuting someone in a different room (?). I want to say it had "Ghost" in the title, but damned if I can remember. It's driving me crazy.

2vorkosigan
Muokkaaja: toukokuu 18, 2023, 1:47 am

>1 Lance.Ashdown: Maybe The Ghost Writer

2004. I haven't read it, but it seems like it starts when he was a boy and then picks up 20 years later when he's a librarian.

3Lance.Ashdown
toukokuu 19, 2023, 6:55 pm

>2 vorkosigan: That was it! Thank you!

4vorkosigan
toukokuu 19, 2023, 8:30 pm

>3 Lance.Ashdown: Yay! You're welcome.