In 1885, a 9-year-old Parisian girl, cursed or blessed with a disease that forces her to stay in constant motion, sets out around the world, at first with her bewildered mother, but soon on her own, ...
Jonathan Cape has snapped up Douglas Westerbeke’s “irresistible” literary speculative debut novel, A Short Walk Through a Wide World. Senior commissioning editor Alex Russell pre-empted UK and ...