The Journey Home
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This timeless story of homelessness introduces two sisters traveling on the orphan train West, fighting to stay together and find a place where they belong.
Isabelle Holland Boeken
16 juni 1920 – 9 februari 2002
Isabelle C. Holland was een productieve auteur wiens uitgebreide oeuvre gothic novels, mysteries voor volwassenen en romantische thrillers omvatte. Ze wijdde zich ook aan het schrijven voor kinderen en jongvolwassenen, waardoor haar bijdragen een breed publiek aanspraken. Haar verhalen doken vaak in complexe en gevoelige thema's, waarbij sommige werken beschuldigingen van pedofilie behandelden, wat haar schrijven diepte en provocatieve kracht verleende. Holland toonde een opmerkelijk vermogen om diverse doelgroepen aan te trekken door haar kenmerkende stijl en vertelkunst.
Charles didn't know much about life...until he met The Man Without a face... "I'd never had a friend, and he was my friend; I'd never really, except for a shadowy memory, had a father, and he was my father. I'd never known an adult I could communicate with or trust, and I communicated with him all the time, whether I was actually talking to him or not. And I trusted him...." Fourteen-year-old Charles desperately wants two things: a father and a way out. Little love has come his way until the summer he befriends a mysterious scarred man named Justin McLeod, nicknamed "The Man Without a Face." Charles enlists McLeod's help as tutor for the St. Matthew's school entrance exams, his ticket away from the unpleasant restrictions of his home life. But more important than anything he could get out of a book, that summer Charles learns from McLeod a stirring life lesson about the many faces of love.
