This Time of Dying

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781846270468
Publisher: Granta Publications
Imprint: Granta Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.92
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 296
Weight: 290g
Height: 194mm
Width: 131mm
Spine width: 23mm