title: Rain in the Winter Garden
author: Reid, Jane
description: “Ghosting” the memoirs of an old soldier ought not to be an arduous commission for a writer, but when a condition of employment means staying at a large hotel, in the 1970’s, a man in his early thirties finds to his dismay that most other residents, settled there for the winter, are people of retirement age.
  
  A boring prospect lies ahead for the next few months – or does it?