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Armistice Runner
- Author
- Tom Palmer
- Narrator
- Flora Ogilvy
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 9 May 2024
- Run Time
- 3 hours 20 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Children’s / Teenage emotions: Courage, bravery, hope, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Sporting stories, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Lives of children in the past, Children’s / Teenage social topics: War and conflict issues, Children’s / Teenage fiction: True stories told as fiction
What to expect
Tom Palmer celebrates the unsung athletic heroes of the Armistice in a powerful intergenerational tale of the fell-running messengers on the front-line of war.
Lily has lots of worries. She's struggling to compete in her fell-running races and, worse, she's losing her gran to Alzheimer's. But then she discovers her great-great-grandfather's diaries from the First World War. Could his incredible story of bravery help her reconnect with her gran and even give her the inspiration she needs to push through and win?
Critics Review
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“Tom Palmer has created a poignant story with different voices which manages deftly to explore painful memories of the war while keeping a foot firmly in the present” – Just Imagine
"A real triumph … beautifully-layered in its exploration of memory, loss and courage, emotionally resonating across time and place … Tom Palmer makes every word count, every word beat, every word resonate, pound, ache" – Chris Soul
"Today and yesterday are seamlessly woven together … will move readers in lots of different ways" – LoveReading4Kids
"Without doubt one of the finest war books I have read in a long time" – The Reading Zone
"Powerfully poignant … not to be missed" – Scott Evans, The Reader Teacher
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Details
- Author
- Tom Palmer
- Narrator
- Flora Ogilvy
- Duration
- 3 hours 20 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 May 2024
- ISBN
- 9780008700690
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Children’s / Teenage emotions: Courage, bravery, hope, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Sporting stories, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Lives of children in the past, Children’s / Teenage social topics: War and conflict issues, Children’s / Teenage fiction: True stories told as fiction
Synopsis
Tom Palmer celebrates the unsung athletic heroes of the Armistice in a powerful intergenerational tale of the fell-running messengers on the front-line of war. Lily has lots of worries. She's struggling to compete in her fell-running races and, worse, she's losing her gran to Alzheimer's. But then she discovers her great-great-grandfather's diaries from the First World War. Could his incredible story of bravery help her reconnect with her gran and even give her the inspiration she needs to push through and win?
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