ISBN: 0140309616
Godina izdanja: 1977
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Leon Garfield - The Sound of Coaches
Puffin Books, 1977
235 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

Orphaned at birth and adopted by a coachman and his wife, a young man struggles to discover his origins.

One stormy December night some time in the eighteenth century, a coach came thundering down the long hill outside of Dorking on its usual journey into London. But something unusual was to happen that night as one of the passengers unexpectedly gave birth to a child. Not until he was eight did Sam Chichester discover that the coachman and guard he called `Ma and `Pa` were not his real parents. Sam will need to grow up, leave home, and find love before he will finally uncover the truth about his parentage.

Young Sam Chichester travelled the Dorchester-London route in The Flying Cradle and dreamed of being a coachman like his father. But he dreamed too of his `other pa` - for Sam was adopted, and all he knew of his real parents was the pistol and the pewter ring his mother had left him. One day he`d find out more about them...
Cover illustration by John Lawrence


Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Historical Fiction, 0140309616