The Green Man

The owner of a haunted country inn contends with death, fatherhood, and romantic woes in this humorous, “rattling good ghost story” from a Booker Prize–winning author (The New York Times)

Maurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death. As he says, “I honestly can’t see why everybody who isn’t a child, everybody who’s theoretically old enough to have understood what death means, doesn’t spend all his time thinking about it. It’s a pretty arresting thought.” He also happens t...