A new feature film will be released in the coming year. The Snow Goose has inspired a number of musical scores and albums, has been made into two feature films and moved generations of readers.

It won the prestigious O Henry prize that same year and has been continually in print ever since. Originally published in 1940 in the Saturday Evening Post, it was brought out in book form the following year by Knopf, Michael Joseph and M&S simultaneously.

The Snow Goose is set in the years running up to the evacuation of Dunkirk in the Second World War. And every summer, when it flies away, Thayader is left alone once more. Over the following months and years, Fritha visits the lighthouse when the snow goose is there. Fritha is frightened of Rhayader, but he is gentler than his appearance suggests and nurses the goose back to health. She carries in her arms a wounded snow goose that has been storm tossed across the Atlantic from Canada. On the desolate Essex marshes, a young girl, Fritha, comes to seek help from Philip Rhayader, a recluse who lives in an abandoned lighthouse. Beautifully written, with a powerful ending, and breathtakingly illustrated, this is an exquisite edition of Gallico s masterpiece.Ī stunning new edition of a beloved children’s classic. Over the following months and years, Fritha visits the lighthouse when The Snow Goose is there. A stunning new edition of a beloved children’s classic.

Love of Seven Dolls by Paul Gallico