A01=Reina James
Author_Reina James
Category=FR
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Product details
- ISBN 9781846270468
- Weight: 283g
- Dimensions: 127 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 12 Apr 2007
- Publisher: Granta Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
REINA JAMES lost two grandparents to the 1918 Spanish flu. This is her first novel.
