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Michèle Roberts has written novels, short stories, poetry, memoir and artist’s books. She is half-English and half-French and lives in London.

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Hauntings

Michèle Roberts on Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

Aged 14, I read Gaudy Night simply as a tantalizing romance masquerading as a thriller. Rereading it now I see it as a ghost story, its form demanded by its subject matter. The ghosts float across the text as metaphors that are not merely decorative, as elements of style, but fundamental to the plot, which has to do, crucially, with language, written and spoken: language stolen, repressed, destroyed.

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