
This Time Of Dying
Reina James(Author)
Granta Books (Publisher)
Published on 12. April 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-84627-046-8 (ISBN)
Description
It is October 1918 and London is gathering in its dead. For Henry Speake, of Speake & Son Undertakers, laying to rest the shattered young bodies of those sent home from the Front to die has become a grimly familiar duty. But what he is seeing now, as influenza claims its victims with increasing speed and force, is something different, and for the first time in his life, Henry feels afraid of death. Unable to share his fears with his waspish, disapproving sisters, Henry turns instead to Mrs Allen Thompson, a recently widowed school teacher, so beginning a friendship which gradually, stumblingly, pulls them in a direction neither is prepared for.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
296 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84627-046-8 (9781846270468)
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REINA JAMES lost two grandparents to the 1918 Spanish flu. This is her first novel.