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A Short Walk Through a Wide World

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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.

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The perfect summer read: a spellbinding fantasy adventure that follows a young woman struck down by a mysterious curse, and her extraordinary journey in search of survival.

‘Races around the globe, through deserts and cities, across oceans’ OPRAH DAILY

The International Bestseller

***** READERS LOVE A SHORT WALK *****
‘A unique blend of adventure and fantasy’
‘You just cannot put the book down’
‘A true love letter to travel, adventure and discovery’
‘The world-building is amazing’
‘This book is incredible’
‘I loved every page of it’

Paris, 1885. On an otherwise ordinary night, Aubry Tourvel – spoiled, stubborn and nine years old – is suddenly struck down by a mysterious illness at the family dinner table.

When a visit to a doctor only makes her worse, Aubry flees to the outskirts of the city, where she realises that it is this very act of movement that keeps her alive.

She has no choice: she must run from this curse. And so begins her incredible lifelong journey across the world.

But with risk at every turn, what will it take for Aubry to survive?

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* As seen on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show Book Club *

‘An epic adventure?rich with all the possibilities the world can hold’ PEOPLE

‘Imagine Life of Pi and The Midnight Library rolled into one’ NEW YORK TIMES

Dazzling? I savoured every page’ SHELBY VAN PELT

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Additional information

Weight 0.291 kg
Dimensions 19.9 × 13 × 2.6 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

416

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K