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• Sales Rank: #3214596 in Books
  
• Published on: 2012-08-30
• Binding: Paperback

The Greatcoat

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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Genuinely creepy
By Amazon Customer
A proper old-fashioned ghost story, beautifully understated writing with interesting characters and no melodrama. I couldn't put it down. Highly recommended. Cheap too!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
An atmospheric ghost story
By little bookworm
In the aftermath of WWII, newlyweds Philip and Isabel move to the Yorkshire East Riding where they hope to embark on their new life together. Philip is a Gp and is soon working long hours, leaving Isabel alone in their flat, with only the monotonous noise of the landlady's footsteps above for company. One particularly chilly night Isabel finds an old greatcoat in one of the cupboards and slips it on for warmth; later however, she is disturbed by a tapping at the window where an RAF officer appears to be leaning in and mouthing her name. Who is he, how is it that he seems to know her, or why perhaps even more strangely she seems to know him?The Greatcoat is a wonderfully atmospheric read, as Dunmore captures quite perfectly the era in which the story is set. War has ended, however, the suffering and tragedy of those years still endures, permeating the very landscape as loss on both a national and personal scale is still acutely felt. Life in the small Yorkshire village for Isabel and Philip is portrayed with great naunce and attention to small detail that completely draws the reader in, and one can almost feel their hardships. The ghostly remains of the old airfield are also quite hauntingly conjured, the ambience created wonderfully eerie yet sad, with the undertone of its former life still ringing just beneath the surface.With regards to the ghost story, this is by no means a chilling thriller or horror, but rather an unusual supernatural story with echoes of classics such as Tom's Midnight Garden. It soon becomes apparent that the presence of mysterious RAF officer, Alec, is connected somehow to the Greatcoat, however precisely why he appears to Isabel and how they seem to know each other is a mystery which is slowly unravelled. I have to say that not all aspects of the storyline quite made sense to me, sometimes it seemed like more of a time travel story and the ending too was rather dubious, hence the three stars rating. However, given the nature of the storyline I was generally prepared to merely go along with it and not question things too much.Most of the central characters are well constructed. Isabel's small and mundane life is portrayed well such that one can empathise with her frustrations, and the effect that Alec has on her comes across well. Philip is a sympathetic character, even if not always so in the eyes of his wife, and Alec, though by no means ever a threatening figure, is laced with an air of sadness, burden and haunting. However, perhaps the most eerie presence is that of the landlady, whose relevance becomes more clear as the story progresses, and who lurks throughout the story with an air of vengeance and ill-boding.All in all this makes for an unusual but very readable novella, not at all the average ghost story, but actually a story very much about human loss. Worth a read.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Beautifully written, haunting post-war tale
By Joanne Sheppard
The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore is published by Hammer, of Hammer Horror fame, and has been widely discussed in the press as the author's first horror story. But it's really not what I'd call horror. It's eerie, yes, and has a slightly unsettling, dreamlike quality to it, but if anything, what it most closely resembles is those quietly magical time-slip novels of my childhood: Charlotte Sometimes, perhaps, or Tom's Midnight Garden.Isabel, newly married to a young GP in 1952, is struggling to find real purpose in her life as a housewife in a Yorkshire market town, where she has few friends and few outlets for her interests. Shivering one night in the freezing ground-floor flat she and her husband are renting from their dour, bitter landlady, Isabel finds an old RAF greatcoat, left over from the war, tucked away on top of a wardrobe, and huddles beneath it to keep warm. And it's around then that a mysterious young airman begins to knock at her window.The Greatcoat is beautifully written throughout in perceptive, perfect prose, and almost every character is vividly well-constructed (with the exception, perhaps, of Isabel's husband Philip, although given the plot, this may well be deliberate). I found it incredibly easy to sympathise with Isabel, brought up by an aunt and now trying to master the art of making a steak and kidney pudding and haggling over the best fish at the market when she could have been studying for a degree, and any adult who's ever had that nagging feeling that they still aren't quite a proper grown-up yet will understand how she feels. There are times when Isabel fears that she's losing her grip on reality, unsure whether Alec is what she believes him to be, or even if she's what she believes herself to be, but in a way, this simply mirrors the unease she feels over her new role in life as a supportive housewife.If you're looking for real scares, The Greatcoat probably isn't for you, and if I had to look for something to criticise, there were perhaps moments when I felt that Isabel's attraction to Alec was slightly over-romanticised. But this a tiny point that I've had to struggle to think of. Overall, it really is a thoroughly absorbing, exquisitely-crafted, thought-provoking book that will stay with you long after you've finished the final page.

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