{"product_id":"closing-ranks-dirk-bogarde-9781448206834","title":"Closing Ranks","description":"First published in 1997, this is Dirk Bogarde's sixth and final novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Grayles have lived at Hartleap since Canute. They know this and are proud of the fact. Now they stand around the deathbed of their longest-serving nanny who is about to slip away. Ada Stephens - known as Nanny Grayle and well into her nineties - will not go quietly. In the strange clarity that comes with the last remission, she looks at the saddened faces about her and surprises them all. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe 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, dark secrets unravel. The family must face the fact that their way of life, and the glory that was Hartleap, will slide into Nanny's grave with her. As terrible truths become known, they must desperately try to close ranks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dirk Bogarde\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1448206839\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781448206834\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/20\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.67d","brand":"Dirk Bogarde","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935845843199,"sku":"9781448206834","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a7432c43-703f-4e8d-84ff-c3413b211862.jpg?v=1681422167","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/closing-ranks-dirk-bogarde-9781448206834","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}