A brother, a sister and a swallow – each, in their own way, a victim of the horrors of landmines in this moving story. Olly’s brother Matt wants to travel to Africa and work with children orphaned by war, hoping to make them laugh as a clown – but his mother and sister want him to stay in England and go to university instead. Hero, a swallow, has his own journey ahead of him, flying to Africa for the winter to join the other swallows on a passage fraught with danger. Three separate stories weave together into one powerful, moving novel whose central theme exposes not only the horrors of war and landmines, but also the endurance of the human spirit.
ISBN 13: 9780006753339
Author: Michael Morpurgo
