This Time of Dying

by ReinaJames (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

  $6.65

  It is 1918 and London is gathering in its dead. For undertaker Henry Speake, laying to rest the 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, is something different, and for the first time in his life, Henry feels afraid of death.

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $3.40

  This work is suitable for readers of Sebastian Faulks , Helen Dunmore's Zennor in Darkness and The Siege , Rose Tremain's The Way I Found Her , and Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy. 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; 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 has been prepared for.

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $9.60

  This work is suitable for readers of Sebastian Faulks , Helen Dunmore's Zennor in Darkness and The Siege , Rose Tremain's The Way I Found Her , and Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy. 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; 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 has been prepared for.