Ghost MacIndoe

Ghost MacIndoe
Jonathan Buckley

Following in the wake of his highly praised first two books, Jonathan Buckley’s ‘Ghost MacIndoe’ is a bold and ambitious novel that focuses on the life of Alexander MacIndoe, a self-centred man who is characterised only by his physical beauty and a complete lack of will.Jonathan Buckley’s third novel opens with Alexander MacIndoe’s earliest memory: a February morning in 1944, in the aftermath of the second wave of German air-raids. Set mainly in London and Brighton, Ghost MacIndoe is the story of the next fifty-four years of Alexander’s life. We meet his glamorous mother and his father, a pioneering plastic surgeon; a traumatised war veteran called Mr Beckwith with whom Alexander works for several years as a gardener and, most important of all, the orphaned Megan Beckwith, whose relationship with Alexander crystallises into a romance in the 1970s. In the wake of his highly praised first two novels, Jonathan Buckley’s third miraculously brings into being one simple life and the last sixty years of English history.

JONATHAN BUCKLEY

Ghost MacIndoe

Dedication (#ulink_4c30712f-79b5-51e1-a1a9-99f2cc01d780)

for Susanne Hillen

Contents

Cover (#u911072f1-6847-5f6f-b31c-3f0fb9373a13)

Title Page (#ue8fa3008-adf3-5ade-915b-5b8340d32380)

Dedication (#uf74b1692-1857-5c0c-861c-686f89f2de36)

1. Our Lady of Fatima (#u40102643-6140-56a8-b8f8-cc804669c3a2)

2. Gisbert (#u5954cf51-6398-5b5c-b89e-e43f9d45cc5b)

3. Nan Burnett (#u907a9014-3214-54f6-a58a-639b0f7f5310)

4. Eck (#ue60ec76b-6e2c-5bfd-9c27-5dfe8ac198f5)

5. The Doodlebug House (#ue84c81c0-30a5-5b19-aecd-aa6ea87c1e1e)

6. The Winslow Boy (#u7df5439b-584f-50f3-acc0-66578b51cc9a)

7. The Bovis stove (#u27b937b8-3046-5d6d-9a1b-4da96be61e98)

8. Tollund Man (#u43840e04-52ba-5eae-847a-4fa65b1a11fd)

9. Praa (#uad9f0dbf-b564-54e9-8a1d-6f454015db90)

10. Monty (#u98eead00-2075-5b74-a816-7b89436122f1)

11. The girls’ party (#u3fe617a1-f829-58dc-b084-68922759af88)

12. The Diet of Augsburg (#ubcebbb31-4a86-5a8b-bea8-1c97c46e5399)

13. The great Mclndoe (#litres_trial_promo)

14. The cave (#litres_trial_promo)

15. 6 July 1958 (#litres_trial_promo)

16. Chocolate soldiers (#litres_trial_promo)

17. Welcome back, Private MacIndoe (#litres_trial_promo)

18. A Name You Can Trust (#litres_trial_promo)

19. Edie the WAAF (#litres_trial_promo)

20. Dixon’s Discs (#litres_trial_promo)

21. Pen (#litres_trial_promo)

22. The Crown and Anchor (#litres_trial_promo)

23. The Park Rangers (#litres_trial_promo)

24. Mitchell (#litres_trial_promo)

25. Gone but forgotten (#litres_trial_promo)

26. Shipping Supplied (#litres_trial_promo)

27. All My Appointed Time (#litres_trial_promo)

28. Edwin (#litres_trial_promo)

29. Esmé (#litres_trial_promo)

30. The riot in Buenos Aires (#litres_trial_promo)

31. The light on the stairs (#litres_trial_promo)

32. Mr Harvey (#litres_trial_promo)

33. All Saints (#litres_trial_promo)

34. Nafplio (#litres_trial_promo)

35. MacIndoe’s (#litres_trial_promo)

36. Pont des Arts (#litres_trial_promo)

37. A Night at the Opera (#litres_trial_promo)

38. The Greta (#litres_trial_promo)

39. La Plaza de Toros de la Real Maestranza de Caballería de Ronda (#litres_trial_promo)

40. 27 April 1983 (#litres_trial_promo)