Author: Douglas WesterbekeHistorical adventure | Fantasy | Fiction: special featuresPublished on 5th June 2025 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.Paperback / softback | 416 pages 129mm x 198mm x 29mm | 292g The perfect summer read: a spellbinding fantasy adventure that follows a young woman struck down by a mysterious curse, and her extraordinary journey in search of survival. ‘Races around the globe, through deserts and cities, across oceans’ OPRAH DAILYThe International Bestseller ***** READERS LOVE A SHORT WALK *****‘A unique blend of adventure and fantasy’‘You just cannot put the book down’‘A true love letter to travel, adventure and discovery’‘The world-building is amazing’‘This book is incredible’‘I loved every page of it’Paris, 1885. On an otherwise ordinary night, Aubry Tourvel – spoiled, stubborn and nine years old – is suddenly struck down by a mysterious illness at the family dinner table. When a visit to a doctor only makes her worse, Aubry flees to the outskirts of the city, where she realises that it is this very act of movement that keeps her alive. She has no choice: she must run from this curse. And so begins her incredible lifelong journey across the world. But with risk at every turn, what will it take for Aubry to survive?* * ** As seen on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show Book Club * ‘An epic adventure…rich with all the possibilities the world can hold’ PEOPLE ‘Imagine Life of Pi and The Midnight Library rolled into one’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘Dazzling… I savoured every page’ SHELBY VAN PELT
