Status
Available
Call number
Genres
Publication
Walker Books (2018), 384 pages
Description
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.
Awards
Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing (Nominee — 2019)
Branford Boase Award (Longlist — 2019)
Young Quills Award for Historical Fiction (Shortlist — 2019)
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
5.08 inches
ISBN
140637167X / 9781406371673