Closing Ranks - Softcover

Closing Ranks

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 288 pages. spine faded, text lightly tannedFirst published in 1997, this is a story about the Grayles. They have been at Hartleap since Canute. They know this and are proud of the fact. Now they stand round the bed of the very last of their nannies, who is quietly slipping away.Ada Stephens-known as Nanny Grayle, and well into her nineties-is saying f arewell. In the strange clarity which comes with the last remission, she looks a t the saddened faces about her and surprises them all. She says that the most ad ored of her charges, Rufus, is 'tainted' and that his father, the revered war he ro 'Beau' Grayle, was 'wicked'. None of them is going to get anything in her wil l - she has left everything to her nephew, Robert.Thus begins the final d emolition of a once-proud house. Slowly, from Sunday to Thursday, as they attend to the many small duties that follow death, the unravelling begins. The family must face the fact that their way of life, and the glory which was Hartleap, wil l slide into Nanny's grave with her. As the terrible truth becomes known, desper ately they try to close ranks. Artikel-Nr. 5928ae

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