Stay where you are & then leave /
Stay where you are and then leave
John Boyne ; with hand lettering by Oliver Jeffers.
- First American edition.
- 245 pages ; 22 cm
Four years after Alfie Summerfield's father left London to become a soldier in World War I he has not returned but Alfie, now nine, is shining shoes at King's Cross Station when he happens to learn that his father is at a nearby hospital being treated for shell shock.
9781627790314 (hardback) 1627790314 (hardback)
2013043620
World War, 1914-1918--England--Juvenile fiction. World War, 1914-1918--England--Fiction. Fathers and sons--Fiction. Mental illness--Fiction.
London (England)--History--20th century. Great Britain--History--George V, 1910-1936--Fiction.