Description
| Product ID: | 9781406371673 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Goose Road |
| Authors: | Author: Rowena House |
| Page Count: | 384 |
| Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. A debut novel about one girl''s remarkable journey across France during WWI. |
| Imprint Name: | Walker Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Walker Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-04-05 |
