A short walk through a wide world

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By Douglas Westerbeke
Fantasy Fiction

Paris, 1885: Aubry Tourvel, a spoiled and stubborn nine-year-old girl, comes across a wooden puzzle ball on her walk home from school. She tosses it over the fence, only to find it in her satchel that evening. Days later, at the family dinner table, she starts to succumb to a mysterious illness.
She realises that it is this very act of movement that keeps her alive. So begins her incredible lifelong journey around the world.