In the hands of another author, The Regrets could have become something like the movie Ghost as reimagined by Nicholas Sparks. But Bonnaffons resists sentimentality and treacly reflections on love ...

A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost - Story of ... Here are some of our favourite quotes... "Bah, humbug!" "Old Marley was as dead as a doornail." "No space of regret can make amends for ...