Lindsay Hawdon spent three years after university traveling around Europe, Africa, and India, hitching rides and sleeping under canvas. She has since traveled to more than sixty countries and writes regularly for The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Australian, and the LA Times. Her travel column 'An Englishwoman Abroad' ran in the Sunday Telegraph for seven years. Her series of articles for The Sunday Times, called 'Have Kids Will Travel,' followed a year of traveling solo with her two young boys around South East Asia. This is her first novel. She lives in Bath with her family.
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Austria, 1944. Jakob, a gypsy boy--half Roma, half Yenish--runs for his life as he has been told to do. With shoes made of sack cloth--stained with another person's blood--and a stone clutched in one hand, a small wooden box in the other, he runs blindly,... SEE MORE