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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; and for the first time
in his life Henry feels overwhelmed by 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. |
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