My Brother's Ghost

By Allan Ahlberg

Subjects: Ghosts, fiction, Siblings, fiction, England, fiction, Death, Ghost stories, Horror, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Children and death, Aunts, Death, fiction, Orphans, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Orphans, Young Adult Fiction, Brothers and sisters, Juvenile fiction, Family, fiction, Ghosts

Description: 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.