Goose Road

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-04-05
Mått:129 x 197 x 22 mm
Vikt:265 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Läsålder:12-15 år
Antal sidor:384
Förlag:Walker Books Ltd
ISBN:9781406371673
Utmärkelser:Short-listed for Branford Boase Award 2019 (UK)

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Rowena House studied journalism at LSE and spent several years on Fleet Street, reporting for various news agencies. She has lived and worked in France, Africa and Belgium as a Reuter's foreign correspondent and covered the fall of Addis Ababa at the end of Ethiopia's 30-year civil war. She now lives in Devon and works as a freelance journalist. In 2013, Rowena won a competition run by Andersen Press, which published her winning entry, "The Marshalling of Angélique's Geese" in War Girls, a collection of short stories about WWI as seen through the eyes of young women. The Goose Road is her novelization of that story.