I purchased a copy of Alice Greenway's White Ghost Girls soon after it came out in paperback, and remember feeling quite underwhelmed by it. In recent years, I have been wanting to attempt a reread, but could not find my copy anywhere, and therefore fear I may have taken it to the local Oxfam some time ago. Thankfully, my local library came to the rescue, and I was able to sit down on a quiet weekend afternoon and read this in one go.

It turns out that I remembered the bare bones of the story, but not a lot of detail, and the ending took me by surprise. The social and historical contexts in White Ghost Girls have been well researched, and I very much enjoyed the use of short, fragmented sections and chapters to build what came together as a complete story. On my second reading, White Ghost Girls was far more engaging than I remembered, and Greenway's powerful descriptions evocative of a bygone time. Whilst I only ended up liking this novel, rather than really enjoying it, I am definitely interested enough in Greenway's style to seek out more of her work.