The Ghost of Love

The Ghost of Love is an album released in November 2009 by English folk-rock singer Robb Johnson and his band The Irregulars.

The album takes the form of a song cycle based on a woman called Mary and the events that occur in her life at Christmas over various years.

[1] The storyline of the album centres on Mary, from nearby Feltham, her children, and her on-off boyfriend Gary, a carpenter.

[2] Writing in The Guardian, Robin Denselow called the album "bleak but unexpectedly poignant" and "thoughtful [and] well-observed" and said it offered proof that Johnson was "an English original".

Johnson's two young sons, Hari and Arvin, provided background vocals for the track "Poundshop Christmas".