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The Goose Road

The Goose Road

by RowenaHouse (Author)

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    Paperback 2018

    $3.49
Synopsis

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. 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, Angelique embarks on a journey across France with her brother's flock of magnificent Toulouse geese.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 384
 Publisher: Walker Books
Published: 05 Apr 2018
ISBN 10: 140637167X
ISBN 13: 9781406371673
Children’s book age: 12+ Years

Media Reviews
An 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 *
Author Bio
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 Angelique'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.