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  • Published: 15 May 2001
  • ISBN: 9780141928067
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 80

My Brother's Ghost





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.

  • Published: 15 May 2001
  • ISBN: 9780141928067
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 80

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