- Title:
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This Time of Dying
- Written by:
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Reina James
- Read by:
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Cornelius Garrett
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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8
- Duration:
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9 hours 14 minutes
- Published:
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July 28 2017
- Available Date:
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July 28 2017
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489399755
- Genres:
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Fiction; Historical
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Format
Price
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'Sharp glimpses of human nature scattered over a detailed period panorama.'
Kirkus Reviews
A sensitive, moving debut which captures from a distance the leftover horrors of the First World War.
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.
'A finely written and affecting novel.'
Publisher's Weekly
'Such is the strength of her characterisation that the protagonists' secret fears and hopes take possession of the reader's imagination.'
The Independent on Sunday