On the desolate Essex marshes, a young girl named Fritha arrives at a remote lighthouse seeking help from its lonely inhabitant: Philip Rhayader, a crippled artist who has established a bird sanctuary on his land. The girl brings to him a wounded snow goose, which the gentle Philip takes under his care. Soon a friendship blossoms as he and Fritha nurse the bird back to health, though as the years pass, Fritha visits the lighthouse only when the snow goose is there. Then the outbreak of World War II draws Philip away from his home to help in the war effort—and suddenly Fritha has a new reason to return to the lighthouse.
Beautifully written all the way through to its powerful ending, The Snow Goose has been in print since its original publication in 1941.
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“Narrator Ralph Cosham is wonderfully adept at capturing the raw
emotional draw of the story and fills his reading with an elegiac grace. One of
Gallico’s finest achievements is his evocation of the landscape and its cold,
stark beauty. Cosham, in addition to his great sense of pacing and
characterization, manages to make listeners feel the windblown space of the brief
novel as well as its melancholy notes of loss.”
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Library Journal (audio review)