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James, Reina. This Time of Dying. St. Martin's. Apr. 2007. c.304p. ISBN 0-312-36444-X [ISBN 978-0-312-36444-1]. $24.95. F
First-time novelist James depicts 1918 England amid a Spanish flu epidemic that will claim millions worldwide. Competing for casualties is a war one doctor speculates is causing the flu's spread. Henry Speake is an undertaker who becomes overwhelmed with business as the disease progresses. Mrs. Allen Thompson is a widowed schoolteacher who must deal with a stubborn sister, a dying woman hidden in …