Stay Where You Are And Then Leave
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  • Published: 14 May 2020
  • ISBN: 9781787620827
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 5 hr 53 min
  • Narrator: Adrian Rawlins
  • RRP: $23.00

Stay Where You Are And Then Leave

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Paperback
1 Sep 2014
EBook
26 Sep 2013
Audiobook
14 May 2020
Hardback
29 Oct 2018
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From the bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, a moving and uplifting story of an ordinary boy's search for his missing father during the First World War.

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The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission.

Then, while shining shoes at King's Cross Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father's name - on a sheaf of papers belonging to a military doctor. Bewildered and confused, Alfie realises his father is in a hospital close by - a hospital treating soldiers with an unusual condition. Alfie is determined to rescue his father from this strange, unnerving place . . .

©John Boyne 2013 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
  • Published: 14 May 2020
  • ISBN: 9781787620827
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 5 hr 53 min
  • Narrator: Adrian Rawlins
  • RRP: $23.00
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About the author

John Boyne

John Boyne was born in Ireland in 1971. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, six for younger readers and a collection of short stories. Perhaps best known for his 2006 multi-award-winning book The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, John’s other novels, notably The Absolutist and A History of Loneliness, have been widely praised and are international bestsellers. Most recently, The Heart's Invisible Furies was a Richard & Judy Bookclub word-of-mouth bestseller, and A Ladder to the Sky was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award in association with Listowel Writers’ Week.

His novels are published in over fifty languages.

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Praise for Stay Where You Are And Then Leave

Stay Where You Are and Then Leave is a work of tender beauty and real lives. It is an instant classic that, once read, will never be forgotten. I loved the voice and the people. John Boyne has recreated a world that deserves to be remembered for ever. Children's minds and lives will be richer for reading this wonderful story. The forgotten victims of the Great War finally have their stories told

Eoin Colfer

A poignant, timely novel

The Bookseller

A lovely book . . . filled with a real sense of humanity

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