Frances Foggarty, now in her fifties, remembers her childhood.. When she
was nine her ten-year-old brother, Tom, was hit by a milk-float and
killed. He returns after the funeral and Frances's story is of her new
relationship with Tom, the ghost and 'guardian angel'. Frances wears a
caliper as a result of polio and she and her young brother live with a
rather tyrannical aunt. In this touching tale of loss, hardship and
endurance Frances comes to terms with Tom's death and moves on in her
life.