Ashley Dyer's Blog, page 8

Penguin ISBN-13: 978-0141978611

Background reading for a new novel occasionally turns up a book that I just want to tell everyone about. The Body Keeps the Score is one such book. A surprising number of us will experience significant trauma of one kind or another in our lifetime. Yet traditional treatment has proved largely ineffective, with too many sufferers relying on emotion-blunting drugs to maintain a balance, yet remaining scarred for li...

Virago ISBN: 1-85381-259-5

As Halloween approaches and the nights draw in, I thought I’d suggest something seasonal. An evening by the fire with a good ghost story is one of the pleasures of autumn, and this selection, spanning the twentieth century, has plenty to offer. An unexpectedly shivery tale from Richmal Crompton, for instance, or Ruth Rendell’s The Haunting of Shawley Rectory, which begins with a haunting...