My Brother's Ghost

About this book

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

  • aunts
  • brothers and sisters
  • brothers and sisters, fiction
  • children and death
  • children's fiction
  • death
  • death, fiction
  • england, fiction
  • family, fiction
  • fiction
  • ghosts
  • ghosts, fiction
  • ghost stories
  • horror
  • juvenile fiction
  • orphans
  • orphans, fiction
  • siblings, fiction
  • young adult fiction