The Dark flood rises [electronic resource] /
by Drabble, Margaret; Ollerenshaw, Maggie.
Material type: SoundPublisher: [Melbourne, Vic.] : Bolinda audio, 2016Edition: Unabridged ed.ISBN: 9781489374325.Subject(s): Families -- Fiction | Old age -- Fiction | Death -- Fiction | AudiobooksOnline resources: Access eAudiobook online Read by Maggie Ollerenshaw.Summary: Francesca Stubbs holds our hand as we take a walk through old age and death. Fran brings us to drinks with her dear friends, dropping off mouth-watering suppers for Claude, her ex-husband, warm and cosy in his infirmity. She visits her daughter, Poppet, holed up as the waters rise in a sodden West Country, and texts her son Christopher in Lanzarote, as he deals with the estate of his shockingly deceased girlfriend. The questions of what constitutes a good death and how we understand it preoccupy this glittering novel.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Francesca Stubbs holds our hand as we take a walk through old age and death. Fran brings us to drinks with her dear friends, dropping off mouth-watering suppers for Claude, her ex-husband, warm and cosy in his infirmity. She visits her daughter, Poppet, holed up as the waters rise in a sodden West Country, and texts her son Christopher in Lanzarote, as he deals with the estate of his shockingly deceased girlfriend. The questions of what constitutes a good death and how we understand it preoccupy this glittering novel.
Adult.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Duration: 12:24:36.
Read by Maggie Ollerenshaw.
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