My brother's ghost
by Allan Ahlberg
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Orphaned by the death of their parents and bereft by the sudden death of their older brother Tom, nine-year-old Frances and three-year-old Harry are comforted by Tom's ghost, who helps them in difficult situations at home with their aunt and uncle and at school.
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Death, Brothers and sisters, Aunts, Juvenile fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Fiction, Ghost stories, Horror, Ghosts, Children and death, Orphans, Children's fiction, Ghosts, fiction, Death, fiction, Family, fiction, England, fiction, Orphans, fiction, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Siblings, fictionPlaces
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My Brother's Ghost
November 2001, Chivers Press, AudioGo
Paperback
in English
- Large Print Ed edition
0754061817 9780754061816
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Frances Foggarty, now in her fifties, remembers her childhood.. When she was nine her ten-year-old brother, Tom, was hit by a milk-float and killed. He returns after the funeral and Frances's story is of her new relationship with Tom, the ghost and 'guardian angel'. Frances wears a caliper as a result of polio and she and her young brother live with a rather tyrannical aunt. In this touching tale of loss, hardship and endurance Frances comes to terms with Tom's death and moves on in her life.
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