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    Ghost MacIndoe

    By Jonathan Buckley

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateJun 21, 2012
    ISBN9780007447299
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    Ghost MacIndoe
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    Jonathan Buckley

    Jonathan Buckley lives in Brighton. He is the author of four novels, The Biography of Thomas Laing (1997), Xerxes (1999) Ghost MacIndoe (2001), Invisible (2004) and ‘So He Takes the Dog’ (2006).

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      Ghost MacIndoe recounts Alexander MacIndoe's life, covering almost sixty years from his earliest memories dating back to 1944, it tells of the events that mark out his life, what he remembers, along with some of what he does not remember. Its is not a remarkable life, but then in many ways Alex is not a remarkable person; affable and easy going, unambitious and content to accept what comes; yet it is a remarkable story.Over the course of his life Alex makes some good friends, but his oldest friend is Megan. They meet as children when the orphaned Megan came to live with her aunt and uncle, neighbours of the MacIndoes, after the War. Over the years we meet others who enter Alex's life, some fleetingly, some to stay. We see often in great detail many of the memories that amount to his life. For anyone who has lived through those years it will be a nostalgic journey, there will be dates and events that are familiar, from The Dome of Discovery of '51 to the Great Storm of '87, and much more, the telling of the story is such that one is almost thinking 'I was there then'.I said that Alex is not a remarkable person, and yet on reflection perhaps he is, and not just because he is good looking, which he is, but in the same way each one of us is remarkable, an individual unlike any other. For that is what is special about this story, it could be the story of anyone of us, an ordinary life story, but a real story. It is thoroughly believable, convincing; there are no great dramas, no real puzzles or mysterious other than those that one might expect to encounter from day to day. It is a gentle story, pervaded by a calmness and at times melancholy air that makes one feel content to follow at the given pace, to accept it as it comes and not want to rush ahead to find out what happens next, such that the reading experience itself is so thoroughly enjoyable.Ghost MacIndoe is a story of an ordinary boy, a boy who is average at school, yet in his own way very bright, a boy who grows into a very likeable man who is content with life and himself. It is a story that is very easy to relate to, and is bound to make one consider one's own life. It is a beautiful story, one of the most memorable and one of the most moving books I have read in recent years.