My Brother's Ghost

Paperback, 77 pages

English language

Published Nov. 19, 2001 by Chivers Press, AudioGo.

ISBN:
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.

5 editions

Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Juvenile Fiction
  • Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
  • Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)
  • Family - Orphans & Foster Homes
  • General