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Postcards from Pimlico is a novel about belonging, loyalty, and the fragility of friendship.

It's Halloween, and against their parents' advice, three teenage friends decide to hold a séance. At first, it seems the dead don't want to talk, but slowly, shadows of the past start to emerge. The contact begins - a Roman legionnaire, a Polish boy, and a famous cellist all come through with messages. As the teenagers concentrate on the process, keyed up with excitement, exhilaration, and fear, aspects of the three teenagers' personalities start to appear.

Following the death of his wife, Paul moves with his young daughter Hope to the Peak District. When he finds a menu card from a past family holiday to the Caribbean he is immediately haunted by visions of a young girl. As memories are stirred, Paul discovers that the menu from the cruise ship Oriana is covered in personal messages from the ghosts of his childhood...and one particular address catches his eye.