A Short Walk Through a Wide World

If you could never stay, where would you go? - a dazzlingly epic debut novel that charts the adventurous life of one woman as she journeys the globe to outrun a mysterious curse Paris, 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 begins 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. And so begins her incredible lifelong journey on the run from her condition. From 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 clearer it becomes that the world she travels through may not be quite the same as everyone else''s...

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Westerbeke
• Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 20.06.2024
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9781787335028
• ISBN: 978-1-78733-502-8
• Pages: 400
• Dimensions (packing): 15.4 x 23.5 x 3 cm
• Subjects: Adventure, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, Literature, Historical fiction, France, Historical adventure, c 1800 to c 1900, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Paris (City), the Himalayas, Literary fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1880 to c 1889, Libya, Beach Read, books for women, Narrative theme: Health and illness, summer reads, FICTION / Disabilities, new releases, contemporary fiction, fantasy books, kindle deals, fiction books, books new releases, adventure books, fantasy novels, historical fiction books, good books, fantasy books for adults, historical novels, books for adults, summer books, literature books, holiday reads, books to read, new book releases, best summer reads, holiday books, top selling books for women, new fiction, adventure books for adults, latest books, top holiday reads