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|title=The Greatcoat

|sort=Greatcoat

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=9780099564935

|pages=208

|publisher=Hammer

|date=February 2012

|website=http://www.helendunmore.com

|summary=Helen Dunmore turns her hand to the ghostly in this short novella set in 1950s post-war Yorkshire.

}}

Set in 1952 in Yorkshire, a young couple move into a rented flat. Philip is the new, young doctor while his new wife Isabel struggles with the isolated life with no friends or family and Philip's frequent absence due to the demands of his job. Things take a turn to the spooky when, waking from under the warmth of the old greatcoat Isabel finds in the flat, she hears a tapping at the window and finds there an RAF pilot, Alec, who appears to know Isabel intimately.

For more ghostly goings on, [[The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger]] is, in my view, as good as you've heard, while for more from this author, it doesn't get much better than [[The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore|The Betrayal]].

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