Sandy Day

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Fred Sadler is as unsettled in death as he was in life. Is there hope for a man no one has ever really known? Or will the tortuous resentments that clouded his living follow him into eternity? 1919. After surviving the battlefields of WWI, all Fred Sadler wants is to return to Canada and take his rightful place as eldest brother; destined he supposes to life as an engineer, with a wife, possibly children, and most assuredly blissful summers at his father's lakeside resort. Fred has served his country, now it's time to reap his reward. But Fred's darn head keeps getting in the way. Anxious and uncertain, every sound scares the life out of him. And people, they're the worst-people are downright rude, disagreeable, and intolerable. Even Fred's family seems to be conspiring against him. It's not fair. He deserves a good life. Why won't they mind their own damn business and leave him alone?1986. Fred Sadler is dead but in a peculiar, unsettled state his being travels- tethered somehow to his loathed sister-in-law, Viola, as she goes about arranging his funeral. Fred can't be alone in wondering what people will say about him at his funeral. Don't we all wonder that?Fred needs to know what his family was thinking when they locked him away in Whitby Hospital for the Insane. And as Viola relates her infuriating version of events, the ghost of Fred Sadler despairs. This is not the story he would tell. Is it too late? How does a man impart the truth about his life as he's fading behind the veil of death?This stirring family drama will remind you of the ancestors you may have forgotten.
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