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Closing Ranks (Paperback)
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Closing Ranks (Paperback)
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Loot Price R528
Discovery Miles 5 280
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First published in 1997, this is Dirk Bogarde's sixth and final
novel. The Grayles have lived at Hartleap since Canute. They know
this and are proud of the fact. Now they stand around the deathbed
of their longest-serving nanny who is about to slip away. Ada
Stephens - known as Nanny Grayle and well into her nineties - will
not go quietly. In the strange clarity that comes with the last
remission, she looks at the saddened faces about her and surprises
them all. She says that the most adored of her charges, Rufus, is
'tainted' and that his father, the revered war hero 'Beau' Grayle,
was 'wicked'. None of them is going to get anything in her will -
she has left everything to her nephew, Robert. Thus begins the
final demolition of a once-proud house. Slowly, from Sunday to
Thursday, as they attend to the many small duties that follow
death, dark secrets unravel. The family must face the fact that
their way of life, and the glory that was Hartleap, will slide into
Nanny's grave with her. As terrible truths become known, they must
desperately try to close ranks.
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