{"product_id":"9781787335011","title":"A Short Walk Through a Wide World","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Westerbeke, Douglas \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHistorical adventure\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 4 July 2024 by Vintage Publishing (Jonathan Cape Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 400 pages\u003cbr\u003e241 x 165 x 38 | 622g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIF YOU COULD NEVER STAY, WHERE WOULD YOU GO? The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets The Midnight Library in this life-affirming debut novel of adventure, wonder and self-discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParis, 1885- Aubry Tourvel, a spoiled and stubborn nine-year-old 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 is stricken by a mysterious illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a visit to a doctor only makes her worse, she flees to the outskirts of the city, where she discovers it is this very act of movement that keeps her alive. So begins her incredible lifelong journey on the run from her condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the scorched dunes of the Calanshio Sand Sea, to the snow-packed peaks of the Himalayas; 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 the longer she wanders, the more she understands that the world she travels through may not be quite the same as everyone else's...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Darling Reads","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48823670604100,"sku":"9781787335011","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/1265\/8244\/files\/1fe8fb9fb778afb5698f27c741c66ef7.png?v=1752772477","url":"https:\/\/darlingreadsbooks.pro\/products\/9781787335011","provider":"Darling Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}