My Brother's Ghost - Ahlberg, Allan

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.