I did enjoy the book, though it does not have the haunting, romantic beauty of the film and the story is more remarkable than the writing. Instead the ghost, a sea captain named Daniel Gregg, who seems a bit lonely in the afterlife, is impressed by her and the two of them forge a unique friendship that lasts Lucy’s whole life, with the captain empowering Lucy to stand firm and live as she chooses. She has taken her own life into her hands and she is not about to let even a ghost swerve her from her decision. Sure enough the ghost manifests himself – as a voice – but she refuses to be frightened off. Undeterred, she rents the house and moves in with her two children. No one’s been able to live there for ten years. But Lucy falls in love with a most unsuitable place, an empty cottage, Gull Cottage, that is said to be haunted. Even the residents of her chosen town seem to expect that she will conform to a certain lifestyle and assume she will live in a respectable house in a respectable neighborhood. She moves out from the home of her in-laws and decides that she wants to live by the seashore. But now that he is gone, she has determined that she will direct her own life. She has always lived, all her life, meekly adhering to the lifestyle that her husband and his family wanted. Muir, is now a widow with two children (there is only one child in the movie). It’s a short novel, only 180 pages, and the movie is quite faithful to the book with only a few, understandable changes. That film, however, was based on a book, published only two years earlier with the same title, by R. Muir, with Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison. One of my favorite romantic films is the 1947 The Ghost and Mrs.
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