Author

Publication

2007-04-17 - St. Martin's Press

Language

English

Word Count

76,000 words, Guess

Page Count

304 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-10031236444X
  • ISBN-139780312364441
  • LibraryThing2047876
  • Goodreads1471439
  • Library of Congress Control Number2006101391
and 3 more

Classifications

  • LCCPR6110.A48 T48 2007
  • LCCPR6110.A48T48 2007

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; 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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • This Time of DyingHardcoverSt. Martin's Press2007-04-17

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