The Goose Road by Rowena House
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.
“An impressive debut with a tenacious heroineOne for slightly older fans of Emma Carroll’s historical fiction.” * The Bookseller *
“House is a wonderful storyteller, combining simple prose with a relish for domestic detail. This is a story that young readers will remember long after GCSE timelines have been forgotten.” * Telegraph.co.uk *
“House is a wonderful storyteller, combining simple prose with a relish for domestic detail. This is a story that young readers will remember long after GCSE timelines have been forgotten.” * The Telegraph *
“An enjoyable book that tells a different kind of war story. Young Angélique 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 *
“House is a wonderful storyteller, combining simple prose with a relish for domestic detail. This is a story that young readers will remember long after GCSE timelines have been forgotten.” * Telegraph.co.uk *
“House is a wonderful storyteller, combining simple prose with a relish for domestic detail. This is a story that young readers will remember long after GCSE timelines have been forgotten.” * The Telegraph *
“An enjoyable book that tells a different kind of war story. Young Angélique 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 *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781406371673 |
| ISBN 10 | 140637167X |
| Title | The Goose Road |
| Author | Rowena House |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Walker Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2018-04-05 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Branford Boase Award 2019 (UK), Short-listed for Young Quills Historical Fiction Awards 2019 (UK) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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