The flight of the doves

By Walter Macken

Subjects: Adventure stories, Runaway children, Runaways, fiction, Children's stories, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Orphans, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Ireland, fiction, Orphans, Runaways, Brothers and sisters

Description: A twelve-year-old English boy and his seven-year-old sister run away from their abusive stepfather and set out to reach their grandmother in western Ireland, despite the publicity about their flight and a police search for them.