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August 1924. John Conrad arrives at his parents' home on the outskirts of Canterbury, where family and friends are assembling for the bank holiday weekend. His crippled mother has been discharged from a nursing home, his brother drives down from London with wife and child. But as the guests converge, John's father dies. Today follows the numb implications of sudden death: the surprise, the shock, the deep fissures in a family exposed through grief. But there is also laughter, fraud and theft; the continuation of life, all viewed through the eyes of Lilian Hallowes - John's father's secreta.

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  • "Today follows the numb implications of sudden death : the surprise, the shock, the deep fissures in a family slowly exposed by grief. There is also a theft, the beginnings of fraud and - curiously - laughter."
  • "August 1924. John Conrad arrives at his parents' home on the outskirts of Canterbury, where family and friends are assembling for the bank holiday weekend. His crippled mother has been discharged from a nursing home, his brother drives down from London with wife and child. But as the guests converge, John's father dies. Today follows the numb implications of sudden death: the surprise, the shock, the deep fissures in a family exposed through grief. But there is also laughter, fraud and theft; the continuation of life, all viewed through the eyes of Lilian Hallowes - John's father's secreta."@en
  • "Today follows the numb implications of sudden death : the surprise, the shock, the deep fissures in a family slowly exposed by grief. There is also a theft, the beginnings of fraud and - curiously - laughter."@en
  • "Familieleden en vrienden van de Pools-Engelse schrijver Joseph Conrad worden geconfronteerd met zijn ziekte en dood in 1924."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Ausgabe"

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