Until the Road Ends - Historical Animal Stories (Paperback)

Longlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2024

Until the Road Ends is the eagerly awaited new novel from the bestselling author of When the Sky Falls.

When Peggy saves a stray dog from near-death, a beautiful friendship begins. Peggy and Beau are inseparable: the only thing that can ever come between them is war.

Peggy is evacuated to the safety of the coast, but Beau is left behind in the city, where he becomes the most extraordinary and unlikely of war heroes. Night after night, as bombs rain down and communities are destroyed, Beau searches the streets, saving countless families.

But then disaster strikes, changing Peggy's life forever. With her parents killed, both she and Beau are left alone, hundreds of miles apart. But Beau has a plan to reunite them at long last . . .