![]() ![]() Joe also seems very real, as a boy too young to join up but brave enough to do it anyway, then compelled to fight on for the sake of his friends. The characters are really well-formed – Rose seems like an average, likeable yet distant 21st century girl, completely bewildered and out of her depth in the horrific setting of the trenches. I loved this book! Its only a slim volume, but in its 150 pages Rebecca Stevens manages to weave a perfect war story: gripping, heartbreaking, realistic, witty and full of hope. And from there, an even greater challenge: can Rose save Valentine Joe before it's too late? That night, unable to sleep, Rose glances out of her hotel room window to see a young soldier with an adorable dog…įrom there she is sucked into an extraordinary time-slip adventure, experiencing her school history lessons first-hand at the front line. ![]() There, one grave in particular catches her attention: that of fifteen-year-old Valentine Joe, a young soldier who died the night before his sixteenth birthday. ![]() At the hotel she spots a lonely stray dog, who she feels an inexplicable fondness and connection to.Ī few pages later, after some of her Grandad's custard creams and some garbled French-Belgian-English, Rose is at the graveyard. ![]() Then, one day, her grandad decides to take Rose along on a trip to Ypres, to visit his uncle's grave from the First World War. ![]()
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