The Spirits Up Audiobook Libro.fm

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Warm witty and unsettling all at once here is an unforgettable story of a family desperate for something to believe in

Benedict is an inventor whose lifes work is a clean energy machine It has just made him an overnight sensation and his family is suddenly wealthy Benedicts wife Karen and his teenage daughters Charlotte and Poppy are proud of him But there are problems Benedict is too busy to see Karen is deeply unhappy in the marriage and contemplating an affair Charlotte who is dealing with a chronic illness is growing more and more distant and Poppy is cracking under the pressures of her social circle And theres another problem Benedict holds a rather terrible secret about his clean energy machine

Then on Halloween night an accident threatens to make everything far worse for the family The accident kicks off a series of hauntingsin their beautiful historic home in affluent Belgravia and the ghosts make it clear that they want something from themKaren has to save her daughters and herselfMeanwhileBenedict is consumed by the knowledge that he has to achieve the impossible by Christmas As time ticks ever closer to the revelation of his secret he spirals further into despair

The Spirits Up is the story of a family haunted by the charmlessness of middle age and the cruelties of modern teenage life Part social satire and part contemporary ghost story with a hint of Dickenss A Christmas Carol it is an exploration of a timeless question what happens when theres nothing to believe