Children's author, Allan Ahlberg is fondly known as the creator of such whimsical books as The Jolly Postman, The Giant Baby and Please Mrs Butler . With this latest slim hard-cover, Ahlberg grapples with death, loneliness and abandonment with skill and charm. Frances Fogarty is an old woman looking back on a remarkable time in her life that started with the death of her older brother when she was nine. Essentially, My Brother's Ghost is a book for children but the story really does reach out to everyone. What I am about to tell you is true, well, as true as I can make it.
Nothing is made up.
Where I could not remember the details, I have left them out. My name is Frances Fogarty. I am the middle child, the sister, in the story. Tom was my brother. Harry was, and happily still is, my brother.