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.
