This book wasn’t what I expected from reading the description. I was expecting a look at actual ghost stories and tales of haunting, and how the spectral influences the corporeal. Instead, I found myself introduced to a fascinating philosophy that I was wholly unfamiliar with. This notion of how the past ‘haunts’ the present resonated with me. Concepts such nostalgia, retromania, cyclical history and more gave me much to ponder, leading to it taking much longer to finish reading than it might otherwise have. 

This seemed eerily prescient given current goings on both world-wide, and within my birth country. The past is certainly haunting us right now as history has cycled around, bringing situations we should have been prepared for/ could have avoided. A global pandemic and the rise of the Tangerine Tyrant are events repeating themselves, echoing into the present, yet no-one seemed prepared at all. I wonder- will we ever learn from the dead past or will it always haunt us?

****Many thanks to Netgalley and Oldcastle Books for providing an egalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.