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A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month June 2023
Award winning Phil Earle’s previous titles, including When the Sky Falls, have shown what a gift he has for writing about animals.
In Until the Road Ends he uses the perspective of a dog, a cat and a pigeon – three unlikely travelling companions – to tell a story about the impact of the London Blitz on a family from an original perspective.
Beau has only recently been taken in by the Alford family when the news that children would be evacuated from London was announced. But already, he and Peggy had become inseparable. When Peggy is sent away she writes weekly to her parents but mostly to Beau who gets the gist of it all even though he can’t read the letters.
When disaster strikes Peggy’s parents, Beau teams up with Mabel, the family cat and Bomber, a local homing pigeon who is essential for navigation to the south coast. Their adventurous journey and eventual emotional meeting with Peggy and her brother Wilf are a triumph.
Julia Eccleshare M.B.E
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Until the Road Ends Synopsis
Until the Road Ends is the eagerly awaited new novel from the bestselling author of When the Sky Falls: The Times Children's Book of the Year, winner of a Books Are My Bag Readers Award, the British Book Award for Children's Fiction and shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
When Peggy saves a stray dog from near-death, a beautiful friendship begins. Peggy and Beau are inseparable: the only thing that can ever come between them is war. Peggy is evacuated to the safety of the coast, but Beau is left behind in the city, where he becomes the most extraordinary and unlikely of war heroes. Night after night, as bombs rain down and communities are destroyed, Beau searches the streets, saving countless families. But then disaster strikes, changing Peggy's life forever.
With her parents killed, both she and Beau are left alone, hundreds of miles apart. But Beau has a plan to reunite them at long last . . .
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9781839133169 |
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1st June 2023 |
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Phil Earle |
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Andersen Press Ltd |
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Paperback |
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288 pages |
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Press Reviews
Phil Earle Press Reviews
Phil Earle is a magnificent writer. This is a thrilling adventure laced with humour, suspense, and love. Just brilliant -- Katya Balen
Phil Earle's wonderful World War Two animal adventures are continually heartfelt, heart-aching, heart-racing and Beau rightly takes his honoured place alongside literature's finest canine heroes -- Keith Gray
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About Phil Earle
Phil Earle was born and raised in Hull and kick-started his love of books with a job as a children's bookseller. Phil now works in children’s publishing and is the award-winning author of several books for young readers including Get Me Out of Here, a recent collaboration with Andy McNab, and the young adult novels Being Billy, and Mind the Gap. Phil's When the Sky Falls was Waterstones Children's Book of the Month for June 2021.
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On the book, author Phil Earle has said, “World War II is littered with rich, intrepid and little-known stories, so it’s been an absolute delight to weave the tale of the Blitz’s bravest and most decorated bomb-dog, with the surreal yarn of a crocodile-on-a-lead, who delighted (and terrified) theatre audiences up and down the country. To work with the team at Andersen Press for third time has been a joy: their support and faith in my writing has been overwhelming, and together, we can’t wait to get out on the road in June and beyond...”
Charlie Sheppard, Andersen Press’ Publishing Director and Phil’s editor adds, “Working on Until the Road Ends has been a true joy, and with this story of animal heroism in World War II, Phil has cemented himself as the true heir to Michael Morpurgo and Michelle Magorian. Everyone at Andersen Press loves working with Phil, and we look forward to yet another major marketing and publicity campaign to get the book into as many hands as possible this summer.”
