Book release (August 15, 2017): The Pear Tree, a novelette for children by Patrick Gilmour.
Young Christopher Marchant is about to find out that sometimes a secret you’re bursting to tell is the heaviest thing to carry—and the easiest thing for another person to run off with.
After helping an old lady on a quiet road at dusk outside Malintown, Christopher finds a little silver box dropped on the path. He vows to return the box to its rightful owner with the help of his friend Kerry, but together they soon encounter many unscrupulous and greedy people determined to get for themselves the little box and all that is inside it.
This is a story that teaches how the beginning of life’s greatest adventures are often marked by meeting another person with intentions we do not yet understand.
Close in style to Hans Christian Andersen’s longer fairy tales, and set in a charmingly simple world, this quest to reunite an old lady with her lost trinket is for children of ages 7-10 and readers of all ages who enjoy tales like The Snow Queen.
You can find out more about the book (and where to buy it) here.
