Baxter's Requiem

Crow, Matthew

ISBN 10: 147215441X / ISBN 13: 9781472154415

Published by Corsair, UK, 2018

About this Item

First UK Edition/First Printing, unread copy. Signed by Noel O'Reilly. One of 750 numbered copies.

Seller Inventory # 019138

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Baxter's Requiem
• Publisher: Corsair, UK
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147215441X
• ISBN 13: 9781472154415
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • For Sale

About this title

Synopsis

Let me tell you a story, about a man I knew, and a man I know...

Mr Baxter is ninety-four years old when he falls down his staircase and grudgingly finds himself resident at Melrose Gardens Retirement Home.

Baxter is many things - raconteur, retired music teacher, rabble-rouser, bon viveur - but 'good patient' he is not. He had every intention of living his twilight years with wine, music and revelry; not tea, telly and Tramadol. Indeed, Melrose Gardens is his worst nightmare - until he meets Gregory.

At only nineteen years of age, Greg has suffered a loss so heavy that he is in danger of giving up on life before he even gets going.

Determined to save the boy, Baxter decides to enlist his help on a mission to pay tribute to his long-lost love, Thomas: the man with whom he found true happiness; the man he waved off to fight in a senseless war; the man who never returned. The best man he ever knew.

With Gregory in tow Baxter sets out on a spirited escape from Melrose, bound for the war graves of Northern France. As Baxter shares his memories, the boy starts to see that life need not be a matter of mere endurance; that the world is huge and beautiful; that kindness is strength; and that the only way to honour the dead, is to live.

Baxter's Requiem is a glorious celebration of life, love and seizing every last second we have while we're here.