"Snow Foal" by Susanna Bailey is a beautiful and deeply touching novel that explores the power of friendship in the face of life's difficulties. It's a perfect book to escape into and escape reality for just one night.
Addie is eleven years old and on the verge of being placed in foster care when, while spending the winter on a remote moor, she rescues an abandoned wild foal. Her life takes a sharp turn when she and the foal are forced to share the difficult circumstances they face together. Addie soon learns that it's not her alone who has been hurt and betrayed, but that there are others who feel the same pain. While Addie's uncertainty about and mistrust towards human connection lead her to choose solitude during most of the novel, she's forced to trust the bond she forms with the small creature when she realizes it needs her as much as she needs it.
This heartbreaking and hopeful story is chock full of tender moments as well as some harrowing ones. With a strong heroine and a sympathetic and inspiring animal sidekick, Susanna Bailey's novel will have you smiling and crying all at once.
Электронная Книга «Snow Foal» написана автором Susanna Bailey в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9781405294942
Описание книги от Susanna Bailey
'I absolutely love Snow Foal – it's so truthful, tender and touching. A book to read in a day and remember for a lifetime.' – Dame Jacqueline WilsonThe perfect children's book to curl up with and begin the new year.A beautiful and heart-wrenching middle grade debut for kids aged 9 to 11, full of love, healing, friendship and hope. Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson's Tracey Beaker, Cathy Cassidy, Pax and Gill Lewis. When eleven-year-old Addie goes to stay with a foster-care family on a remote Exmoor farm in the midst of a very cold winter, she is full of hurt, anger and a deep mistrust of everyone around her. Until one day, when she rescues a tiny wild foal from the moorland snow and Addie discovers that perhaps she’s not so alone after all.And as adventure and unexpected friendship blossom, Addie is determined that both of them will know what is to be home again soon …Susanna Bailey divides her time between writing, freelance social-work, and lecturing in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, where she also studied. Susanna wrote Snow Foal during her time at the same university where she drew much inspiration from her tutor, award-winning David Almond. Snow Foal has already been shortlisted for the Joan Aitken Future Classics Prize.
