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 . . .
Genre: Children's Fiction
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 . . .
Genre: Children's Fiction
Praise for this book
"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
"Smashing... Animal books were the ones I hunted out in the library when I was a kid. I would have loved to find this one." - Hilary McKay
"Phil Earle has the enviable ability to create stories of peril and pace, balanced with moments of real compassion and warmth. In Until the Road Ends, through his engaging and unique characters, he tackles tough subjects head-on with honesty and empathy. Earle continues to find ways to put a fresh spin on WWII stories and offer readers something new and exciting. I'll never look at a pigeon in the same way again." - Lesley Parr
"A truly brilliant book. Phil Earle is the kind of writer who shines a light on what it is to be human, what it is to be loved, and how an adventure can help us find ourselves, whether that be on the page or off of it." - A F Steadman
"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
"Smashing... Animal books were the ones I hunted out in the library when I was a kid. I would have loved to find this one." - Hilary McKay
"Phil Earle has the enviable ability to create stories of peril and pace, balanced with moments of real compassion and warmth. In Until the Road Ends, through his engaging and unique characters, he tackles tough subjects head-on with honesty and empathy. Earle continues to find ways to put a fresh spin on WWII stories and offer readers something new and exciting. I'll never look at a pigeon in the same way again." - Lesley Parr
"A truly brilliant book. Phil Earle is the kind of writer who shines a light on what it is to be human, what it is to be loved, and how an adventure can help us find ourselves, whether that be on the page or off of it." - A F Steadman
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