The Goose Road - Nominiert: Branford Boase Award, 2019. Nominiert: Young Quills Historical Fiction Awards, 2019
Verlag | Walker Books |
Auflage | 2018 |
Seiten | 384 |
Format | 13,0 x 20,0 x 2,3 cm |
Gewicht | 263 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 140637167X |
EAN | 9781406371673 |
Bestell-Nr | 40637167UA |
A debut novel about one girl's remarkable journey across France during WWI.
France 1916. Angélique Lacroix is haymaking when the postman delivers the news: her father is dead, killed on a distant battlefield. She makes herself a promise: the farm will remain exactly the same until her beloved older brother comes home from the Front. "I think of it like a magical spell. If I can stop time, if nothing ever changes, then maybe he won't change either." But a storm ruins the harvest, her mother falls ill and then the requisition appears... In a last-ditch attempt to save the farm from bankruptcy, Angélique embarks on a journey across France with her brother's flock of magnificent Toulouse geese.
Rezension:
"An impressive debut with a tenacious heroine. One for slightly older fans of Emma Carroll's historical fiction." The Bookseller