This time of dying
By: Reina James
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781405615617; 9781405615624
Subjects: Undertakers and undertaking; Fear of death; Fiction; Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919
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.