The Ghost in the House

“I so loved this deeply moving tale of loss and acceptance. A ghost stuck in her house, haunting her husband and his new family. ” —Edward Carey, author of Little 

“Sorrowful, lovely and funny in equal parts, The Ghost in the House depicts overwhelming love in heartbreaking counterbalance with an inescapable loneliness.” 

—Lynn Coady, author of Watching You Without Me 

“The Ghost in the House is a beautiful reverie on how we live and love, a dream of a novel that left me stealing furtive glances at my loved ones, willing myself to appreciate them more and tell them so while we’re all still here. If you’ve lost someone you love, or wondered what it will feel like when it happens, O’Leary’s ghost will haunt you—in the best way.” 

—Jessica Francis Kane, author of Rules for Visiting 

“A thirty-something ghost yearning for her life, a teenage girl toying with ending hers. Can they help each other to move on? This is the extraordinary premise of Sara O’Leary’s The Ghost in the House, a novel written with such aching delicacy it will haunt you long after you’ve turned the final page.”

 —Esta Spalding, author of The Fitzgerald-Trout series 

“Sara O’Leary’s The Ghost in the House, riven by ambiguities and dissolutions, is a story of both love and profound solitude. Piercing, disorienting and tender.” 

—Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing 

“Sara O’Leary opens the front of Fay’s dollhouse life to examine love and grief as only she can, with a penetrating view of the smallest things that make us eternally loving, endlessly lonely, and forever indelibly ourselves.” 

—Marina Endicott, author of The Difference