The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater Groundswell Speaker 2024

The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater Groundswell Speaker 2024The hotel was a hidden paradise. Until they went to war In 1942, June 'Hoss' Hudson runs the finest hotel in the Appalachian Mountains. The Avallon, owned by the wealthy Gilfoyle family, is a world away from the war in Europe. But when Edgar, the eldest son who June has loved since childhood, strikes a deal with the State Department, June finds herself playing host to three hundred foreign diplomats. Nobody at the Avallon wants to serve caviar to the

illustrated by Bee Grandinetti whose warm and sensitive illustrations have been featured by Headspace and Airbnb

Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo

but rather has undergone all sorts of changes and evolutions to suit the needs of the time

ISBN: 9781529316759 | Extent: 224 pages

and claim its prize-a single wish

the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter

His longing for the man who tends to him daily

using the three tools that allow us to weather life's stormiest seasons: narrative

' Epictetus

poignant and beautifully written … Slater tells his heartbreaking story with great subtlety’ Daily Telegraph

She highlights connections and analyses today's struggles against state terror

the atmospheric