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Description for This Time of Dying
Paperback. It is October 1918 and London is gathering in its dead. For Henry Speake, of Speake and Son Undertakers, laying to rest the bodies of those sent home from the Front to die has become a grimly familiar duty. But what he is seeing now is something different; for the first time in his life, Henry feels afraid of death. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 280. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Granta Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846270468
SKU
KSS0008363
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Reina James
REINA JAMES lost two grandparents to the 1918 Spanish flu. This is her first novel.
Reviews for This Time of Dying
"'Rich and absorbing... a five-star weepie' The Times"