A debut novel about one girl's remarkable journey across France during WWI.France 1916. Angelique 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. "e;I think of it like a magical spell. If I can stop time, if nothing ever changes, then maybe he won't change either."e; 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, Angelique embarks on a journey across France with her brother's flock of magnificent Toulouse geese.
| ISBN: | 9781406381870 |
| Publication date: | 5th April 2018 |
| Author: | House, Rowena |
| Publisher: | Walker Books |
| Format: | Ebook (PDF) |