Book 26 - Helen Dunmore "The Greatcoat"
Mar. 31st, 2014 03:50 pmHelen Dunmore "The Greatcoat" (Hammer)

It's early 1950s and newly-married Isabel is settling down to married life with Philip, her doctor husband, in East Yorkshire. There's an abandoned wartime airfield nearby, which reminds her of the one near where she was living with her Aunt during the war and where she got to know the sounds of the Lancaster planes. Her new ground-floor flat is cold and lonely and the landlady living upstairs is constantly walking to and fro. She rummages the cupboards for any extra blankets and finds a RAF greatcoat and starts sleeping with that on top of covers. Then one night there is tapping on the window and an airman outside, and she starts hearing the rumble of the fighter planes.
Read in two sittings, this was an atmospheric ghost story and I really enjoyed reading it

It's early 1950s and newly-married Isabel is settling down to married life with Philip, her doctor husband, in East Yorkshire. There's an abandoned wartime airfield nearby, which reminds her of the one near where she was living with her Aunt during the war and where she got to know the sounds of the Lancaster planes. Her new ground-floor flat is cold and lonely and the landlady living upstairs is constantly walking to and fro. She rummages the cupboards for any extra blankets and finds a RAF greatcoat and starts sleeping with that on top of covers. Then one night there is tapping on the window and an airman outside, and she starts hearing the rumble of the fighter planes.
Read in two sittings, this was an atmospheric ghost story and I really enjoyed reading it