Douglas Westerbeke A Short Walk Through a Wide World Hardback Book

IF YOU COULD NEVER STAY, WHERE WOULD YOU GO?Escape into this spellbinding novel of adventure, wonder and selfdiscovery, for fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, The Midnight Library and Life of Pi. Paris, 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 illness. When 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. LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2025As seen on Jimmy Fallons Tonight Show Book ClubAdventure, beauty, danger . . . a fantastical fableNEW YORK TIMESExtraordinary . . . Welcome to [Aubrys] exciting, dangerous and romantic lifeOPRAH DAILYREADERS LOVE A SHORT WALKThis book is incredibleI loved every page of it . . . you just cannot put the book downA perfect read . . . Aubry is a marvellous characterA true love letter to... | Douglas Westerbeke A Short Walk Through a Wide World Hardback Book