Out of the Dark (Quick Reads)
Adele Geras
Reading level: Level 1, Level 2, Quick Reads
Rob Stone returns from WWI with a ruined face and a broken heart.
Unable to forget the things he has seen, and haunted by the ghost of his dead Captain, Rob sets out to find the Captain’s family, hoping the picture will bring peace to the ghost – and to his own troubled heart.
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This book is absolutely magnification, brilliant and luminously.
Rob Stone comes back from the horrors of the First World War with a ruined face and a broken heart. Lonely, unable to forget the things he has seen, and haunted by the ghost of his dead Captain, all that Rob has left is a picture of the Captain’s family. Rob sets out to find them, hoping that by bringing them the picture, he can bring peace to the Captain’s ghost – and to his own troubled heart.
31 May 2021
great book to read based on the horrors of the first world war
17 January 2018
Fantastic book!
14 August 2015