Description
Product ID: | 9780141306186 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | My Brother's Ghost |
Authors: | Author: Allan Ahlberg |
Page Count: | 80 |
Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage fiction: Horror and ghost stories, chillers, Horror & ghost stories, chillers (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 9 years |
Description: | Select Guide Rating When Frances Foggarty was nine her ten-year-old brother, Tom, was hit by a milk-float and killed. He returns after the funeral and Frances' 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. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Puffin |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2001-02-01 |