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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rowena HousePublisher: Walker Books Ltd Imprint: Walker Books Ltd Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 19.70cm Weight: 0.265kg ISBN: 9781406371673ISBN 10: 140637167 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 05 April 2018 Recommended Age: From 12 years Audience: Children/juvenile , Children / Juvenile Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsAn impressive debut with a tenacious heroine. One for slightly older fans of Emma Carroll's historical fiction. * The Bookseller * An enjoyable book that tells a different kind of war story. Young Angelique Lacroix makes a great heroine and her epic journey across France with her geese to save the family farm, is amazing. * Ross, 11, LoveReading * The Goose Road' is now one of my favourite books! It can change your mood in a second! You are happy then suddenly you are almost crying! It's romantic, happy, sad, adventurous....all of my favourite things in one book! * Hope, 11, LoveReading * A gem ... House is a wonderful storyteller. * The Telegraph * A beautiful historical quest bursting with resilience & hope. * South Wales Evening Post * An impressive debut with a tenacious heroine. One for slightly older fans of Emma Carroll's historical fiction. * The Bookseller * Author Information"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." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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