Description

From the bestselling author of When the Sky Falls comes the heart-rending story of evacuee Peggy, separated from her beloved dog Beau in the Second World War.

Peggy and her dog 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. He becomes the most extraordinary and unlikely of war heroes, searching the streets after the bombs fall for survivors. Then disaster strikes when Peggy’s parents are killed, leaving her and Beau alone, hundreds of miles apart. But Beau has a plan to reunite them…

‘Dad’s Army meets Animals of Farthing Wood. Warm, weepy, wonderful. Victory medals all round’ The Times, Children’s Book of the Week

‘A heartbreaking story of love and devotion in the midst of war’ Waterstones

Publisher Review

"Phil Earle is a magnificent writer. This is a thrilling adventure laced with humour, suspense, and love. Just brilliant" -- Katya Balen "Earle's story has Spitfire action, a crocodile and incidents of self-sacrifice, and as always he can counted on to be emotionally involving" * The Sunday Times, Children's Book of the Week * "Based on several true events, this thrilling adventure is exciting, witty, warm and occasionally heartbreaking" * Daily Mail * "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