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- catalog abstract ""There have been Grayles at Hartleap since Canute. They know this and are proud 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 says that the most adored of her charges, Rufus, is 'tainted' and that his father, the revered war hero 'Beau' Grayle, was 'wicked'. None of them is going to get anything in her will. She has left everything to her nephew, Robert." "Thus begins the final demolition of a once-proud house. Slowly, from Sunday to Thursday, as they attend to the many small duties that follow death, the unravelling begins, and the family must face the fact that their way of life, and the glory which was Hartleap, will slide into Nanny's grave with her. As the terrible truth becomes known, desperately they try to close ranks ..."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10234855.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description ""There have been Grayles at Hartleap since Canute. They know this and are proud 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 says that the most adored of her charges, Rufus, is 'tainted' and that his father, the revered war hero 'Beau' Grayle, was 'wicked'. None of them is going to get anything in her will. She has left everything to her nephew, Robert." "Thus begins the final demolition of a once-proud house. Slowly, from Sunday to Thursday, as they attend to the many small duties that follow death, the unravelling begins, and the family must face the fact that their way of life, and the glory which was Hartleap, will slide into Nanny's grave with her. As the terrible truth becomes known, desperately they try to close ranks ..."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "281 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0670874191".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Viking,".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog subject "823/.914 21".
- catalog subject "Families England Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Last words Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Nannies England Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PR6052.O3 C58 1997".
- catalog title "Closing ranks / Dirk Bogarde.".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".