A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke Hardback Book 9781787335011

IF YOU COULD NEVER STAY WHERE WOULD YOU GOEscape into this spellbinding novel of adventure wonder and selfdiscovery for fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue The Midnight Library and Life of PiParis 1885 Aubry Tourvel a spoiled and stubborn nineyearold girl comes across a wooden puzzle ball on her walk home from school She tosses it over the fence only to find it in her satchel that evening Days later at the family dinner table she starts to succumb to a mysterious illnessWhen a visit to a doctor only makes her worse she flees to the outskirts of the city where she realises that it is this very act of movement that keeps her alive So begins her incredible lifelong journey around the world From scorched sand dunes to snowpacked mountain peaks from a bottomless well in a Parisian courtyard to the shelves of an infinite underground library we follow Aubry as she learns what it takes to survive and ultimately to truly live But it soon becomes clear that the world she travels through is not quite the same as everyone elses As seen on Jimmy Fallons Tonight Show Book Club Adventure beauty danger a fantastical fable NEW YORK TIMESExtraordinary Welcome to Aubrys exciting...