When Gudrun was born, her mother died bringing her into the world, and Gudrun became a state ward in Leirá, Iceland, a scullery maid for a well-to-do household for her next twenty years. A brief fling with a handsome household visitor, left her pregnant, and like her mother she died giving birth. Her tale should end here, but her short life then took an amazing turn when three neér-do-well men intent on bringing a woman back from the dead to serve them, brought Gudrun back to a life. Instead of creating a zombie-like slave, they resurrected Gudrun as an apparition -- a vibrant ghost destined to travel a mischievous path following her family through eight generations, from Iceland to Canada, and ultimately the world. As a ghost she became know as Leirárskotta, the ghost of Leirá, and author Doreen McFarlane has a special interest as she charts Leirárskotta´s activities -- it was her own family's ghost!. The story unfolds from Leirárskotta´s perspective at first as an angry young ghost with scores to settle, but later as a protective entity, yearning to reach eventual release from her earthbound ghostly status and join her heavenly ancestors. Follow Leirárskotta and her exploits in Leirárskotta: Memoir of an Icelandic Immigrant Ghost.