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Stay Where You Are And Then Leave

Imperial War Museum Anniversary Edition

John Boyne author Lesley Barnes illustrator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Penguin Random House Children's UK

Published:6th Sep '18

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Part of a stunning new design partnership between Puffin and the Imperial War Museum, from the bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

Part of a stunning new design partnership between Puffin and the Imperial War Museum, this is an unforgettable story from the bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. This special edition features a foreword from Eoin Colfer.

The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission.

Then, while shining shoes at King's Cross Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father's name - on a sheaf of papers belonging to a military doctor. Bewildered and confused, Alfie realises his father is in a hospital close by - a hospital treating soldiers with an unusual condition. And Alfie becomes determined to rescue his father from this strange, unnerving place . . .

Pat Barker meets Michelle Magorian . . . Comic as well as poignantly enlightening * Independent on Sunday *
A beautifully paced and touching tale * Mail on Sunday *
[A] timely examination of moral, physical and mental bravery and pain * Daily Mail *

ISBN: 9780241352816

Dimensions: 184mm x 138mm x 27mm

Weight: 299g

272 pages