by Leon Garfield · Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253041641
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«Le berceau volant» is the young adult novel by Leon Garfield published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback format (374 pages, in French).
Sam Chichester is born on the road to Dorking and is adopted by a coachman and his wife. With a tin ring and a pistol as his only inheritance, he sets out to find his natural father in a series of episodes full of adventures and mishaps.
This French edition appeared in 1987; the original work, The Sound of Coaches, was published in 1974.
Intended for young readers and lovers of historical and adventure fiction.
Leon Garfield FRSL was a British author. He is best known for children's historical novels, though he also wrote for adults. He wrote more than thirty books and scripted Shakespeare: The Animated Tales for television. His retellings of Shakespeare for young readers were published as Shakespeare Stories. He wrote an ending for The Mystery of Edwin Drood, left unfinished at the death of Charles Dickens. Garfield won the inaugural Guardian Prize for Devil-in-the-Fog and the Carnegie Medal for The God Beneath the Sea, a retelling of Greek mythology cowritten with Edward Blishen..
