Until the Road Ends

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Until the Road Ends is the eagerly awaited new novel from the bestselling author of When the Sky Falls: The Times Children's Book of the Year, winner of a Books Are My Bag Readers Award, the British Book Award for Childrens Fiction and shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. When Peggy saves a stray dog from near-death, a beautiful friendship begins. Peggy and Beau are inseparable: the only thing that can ever come between them is war. Peggy is evacuated to the safety of the coast, but Beau is left behind in the city, where he becomes the most extraordinary and unlikely of war heroes. Night after night, as bombs rain down and communities are destroyed, Beau searches the streets, saving countless families. But then disaster strikes, changing Peggys life forever. With her parents killed, both she and Beau are left alone, hundreds of miles apart. But Beau has a plan to reunite them at long last . . .

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"Phil Earle is a magnificent writer. This is a thrilling adventure laced with humour, suspense, and love. Just brilliant" -- Katya Balen
"Phil Earle's wonderful World War Two animal adventures are continually heartfelt, heart-aching, heart-racing and Beau rightly takes his honoured place alongside literature's finest canine heroes" -- Keith Gray
"Smashing Animal books were the ones I hunted out in the library when I was a kid. I would have loved to find this one" -- Hilary McKay
"A truly brilliant book. Phil Earle is the kind of writer who shines a light on what it is to be human, what it is to be loved, and how an adventure can help us find ourselves, whether that be on the page or off of it" -- A. F. Steadman
"Phil Earle has the enviable ability to create stories of peril and pace, balanced with moments of real compassion and warmth. In Until the Road Ends, through his engaging and unique characters, he tackles tough subjects head-on with honesty and empathy. Earle continues to find ways to put a fresh spin on WWII stories and offer readers something new and exciting. Ill never look at a pigeon in the same way again" -- Lesley Parr

Author Bio

Born and raised in the north of England, Phil Earle is the author of numerous acclaimed, award-winning books for children and teenagers. He has worked as a carer, a dramatherapist, a bookseller and a publisher, and loves talking at schools and festivals around the world. His novel When The Sky Falls won the Books Are My Bag Readers Award and the British Book Award for Childrens Fiction. He lives on the side of a very steep hill with his wife, their five children and two dogs.