

The Swallows' Flight
Author: Hilary McKay
Narrator: Katherine Press
Unabridged: 7 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Spotify Audiobooks
Published: 10/19/2021
Categories: Children's Fiction, Historical Stories
Author: Hilary McKay
Narrator: Katherine Press
Unabridged: 7 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Spotify Audiobooks
Published: 10/19/2021
Categories: Children's Fiction, Historical Stories
Hilary McKay is the author of ‘The Exiles, the joint winner of the 1992 Guardian Children’s Fiction Award, and ‘The Exilesat Home which won the Smarties Prize in 1995.
We loved The Skylarks War, it was a 5 star read for us, so we were really looking forward to reading this sequel. A couple of the original characters are in this story but they play very minor parts. This story moves on a generation and focuses on several families, a couple of German families and se......more
Erik and Hans grow up in Berlin. Kate and Ruby are in England. All four are born between the world wars and become entangled in the conflict as young people. The story of the boys in Germany begins with three swallows who need to be nurtured until they can fly. In England, a junkyard dog is also in......more
Nearly three years ago I reviewed The Skylarks War, the companion novel to The Swallow's Flight and I said: 'Occasionally, very occasionally, you read a book that slips so perfectly into the canon that it seems as if it was always there. That you read it as a child, reread it over and over, until it......more