A modern ghost story for Christmas
Christmastime is traditionally the time for the telling and reading of ghost stories. Nick Jones' King’s Cross is a modern-day ghost story, set in Sicily and LondonKing's Cross is a tale of love and obsession, in which Englishman Mark Sutton encounters Beatrice, a beautiful young Cistercian nun, in a medieval convent on a remote mountainside in Sicily, where he is recuperating from a nervous breakdown. They fall in love, but the liaison is doomed. Mark flees back to London, but Beatrice follows him. The story’s dramatic denouement takes place in and around the London rail terminus of the