Stay Where You Are and Then Leave Award-winning author by John Boyne (author) (UK edition)

A moving First World War story of a boy searching for his missing father, written by the author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

The day the war broke out, Alfie Summerfield’s father promised he wouldn’t go away to fight. He broke that promise the very next day. Four years later, Alfie doesn’t know where his father might be, except that he’s on a special secret mission. Then, shining shoes at King’s Cross Station, Alfie spots his father’s name on a sheaf of papers belonging to a military doctor. Bewildered and confused, Alfie realises his father is in a hospital close by – a hospital treating soldiers with an unusual condition. Now it’s up to Alfie to rescue his father from this strange, unnerving place…