Review: The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore As a TEENAGER I lost countless nights’ sleep to Pan’s collections of ghostly short stories, partly because I could never stop turning the pages, partly because ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The other day my son returned from Battersea car boot sale in triumph, wearing a greatcoat that he had bought ...

Just outside the town is an abandoned airfield from which Lancaster bombers used to fly over Germany. One day Isobel finds the greatcoat of the title – the kind of coat worn by RAF officers – stuffed ...

Occasionally dubbed the ‘BOC’ (the ‘Big Ol’ Coat), the greatcoat is mighty. We’re talking full-length, heavyweight and military issue, made of dense wool plumes capable of repelling winter’s harshest ...

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In her Afterword, Dunmore says that her inspirations for this ghost story were The Turn of the Screw and Tom's Midnight Garden, stories which deal with the past's imprint upon the present. Her own ...