<p>The Homecoming is Zoë Apostolides's debut novel. Quietly disturbing, it tells the story of Ellen, a young ghost-writer sent to record the memoirs of an elderly woman living in a remote Northumberland manor. Elver House is dilapidated, its faded beauty fading to ruin.<br>The assignment seems simple enough. Ellen will spend a week conducting interviews at the wild and sprawling estate ? far from the quaint country cottage she had imagined ? befo...