Closing Ranks

Dirk Bogarde

ISBN 10: 0670874191 / ISBN 13: 9780670874194

Published by Viking, London England, 1997

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Hardback. First Edition. There have been Grayles at Hartleap since Canute. They know this and are pround of the fact. Now they stand in a semi-circle 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 farewell. There they stand, the old, the young, all of them at one time or another 'her' children. In the strange clarity which comes with the last remission, she looks at the saddened faces about her and surprises them all. She say that the most adored of her charges, Rufus, is 'tainted' and that his father, the revered war her 'Beau' Grayle, was 'wicked'. None of them is goging to get anything in her will. She has left everything to her nephew, Robert. Thus begins the final demolition of a once-proud house. 282 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Closing Ranks
• Publisher: Viking, London England
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670874191
• ISBN 13: 9780670874194
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
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Synopsis

Beau Grayle was a wartime hero with a dreadful dark secret. As Nanny Grayle slips away, the family's home, Hartleap, seemed to be sliding into the grave with her. As the tide of terrible truth rises, the family are desperately closing ranks.

About the Author

Sir Dirk Bogarde was an English actor and novelist. Initially a matinee idol, Bogarde later acted in art-house films such as Death In Venice. As well as completing six novels, Bogarde wrote several volumes of autobiography. Between 1947 and 1991, Bogarde made more than sixty films. For over two decades he lived in Italy and France, where he began to write seriously. In 1985 he was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of St Andrews and in 1990 was promoted to Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. Sir Dirk Bogarde has a legion of fans to this day - an extraordinary commitment to an extraordinary man.