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My Brother's Ghost by Allan Ahlberg · Booklabria

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My Brother's Ghost

HorrorYoung adult

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First published: 2000
Language: English
Editions: 5

Synopsis

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.

Subjects: Horror
Young adult
Ghost stories
Children's fiction
England
Family
Set in: England

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