Good Graces

By Courtney Milnestein

What makes your perfect forever home slightly less than perfect and a lot less than forever? Having the ghost of a young boy haunt its halls, perhaps?

After considerable scrimping and saving, John and Terry have finally put down their first mortgage payment for their new home in St John’s Wood in leafy North London. This, John believes, is their reward, their payment for all the long, hard years of enduring shoddy flats and sketchy landlords; this is what they deserve. Yet during the renovations of their kitchen, when a mystery shoe is found in an old fireplace and a lonesome ghost begins to make an appearance, they find their relationship tested not just by the haunting, but by the strange ghostbuster who arrives on their doorstep unannounced.

John frets and worries, but will they be able to put the matter to rest once more and for all? Will the spirit of their dead visitor find a way to move on, or will the dream of actually owning property in North London become a nightmare?

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Oct 6, 2021
• ISBN: 9781646569335

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Good Graces

By Courtney Milnestein

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Copyright 2021 Courtney Milnestein

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Good Graces

By Courtney Milnestein

It had taken an inordinate amount of cajoling and coercing, a considerable amount of leaning on relatives and borrowing from friends, but, in the end, the house was their own. Well, as much as it could be, John thought, wondering if anyone truly could own property in London.

Still bitter, the recollection of his grandparents’ house stirred, and he remembered how, as a child, he had always believed that he would inherit the house, and how in the end it had been necessary to sell it off under duress from the government to pay for his grandmother’s silent, saddening existence in the care home where she now resided. But in the end, they had got there, hadn’t they? In the end the two of them, him and Terry, had scrimped and saved and begged and borrowed until eventually they had made it work, living the good life, climbing that social ladder, residents now of St John’s Wood, NW8, the name of which still made him snort with laughter when he thought of its connotations.

He looked down at the rotten leather shoe in his hand, the weathered material covered in dust