A breathtaking and uplifting story of moving home, making memories and parental separation from the winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration and two-time winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal

From the Double Kate Greenaway Medal-winning creator of Small in the City and illustrator of Town Is by the Sea, Footpath Flowers, I Talk Like a River and My Baba's Garden comes a moving and unforgettable look at how memories are made.

“A story that captures both the beginning of something new and the end of something treasured, this is a gorgeous tale of endurance.” Irish Examiner

“Precisely crafted around a moment of transition (which may be good or bad, or both), this affecting book brings words and images together in ways that seem simpler than they are.” Books for Keeps

Tucked up in bed at their new flat, a boy and his mum share memories. Some are idyllic, like a picnic with Dad, but others are more surprising: a fall from a bike into soft piled hay, the smell of an old oil lamp when a rainstorm blew the power out.

Now it’s just the two of them, and the house where all of those memories happened is far away. But maybe someday, this will be a favourite memory, too: happy and sad, an end and a beginning intertwined.

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