The Snow Goose

By Paul Gallico,

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Classic storytelling from a bestselling author. Gallico's most famous story, THE SNOW GOOSE, is set in the wild, desolate Essex marshes and is an intense and moving tale about the relationship between a hunchback and a young girl. THE SMALL MIRACLE is a contemporary fable about a young boy's love…

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1 author picked The Snow Goose as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

There are many ‘animal’ books I’d love to recommend and in one sense the American novella The Snow Goose is oddly set apart. It is not really about animals then, except that the Snow goose, a symbol of nature and freedom, is indeed about the Spirit itself. It is one that moved me very deeply. Set at the beginning of the Second World War in England it is essentially about the strange friendship between a girl, Fritha, and the alienated hunchback artist Philip Rhayader and in the healing of a Snow Goose, a lyric coming of age story. It is…

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