Books with title Swallowdale

The greatest of journeys have the smallest of beginnings. Once underway they are full of distractions for both the wary and the wide-eyed. It doesn't help that the world below can bend even the straightest line home out of shape until what's left is only survival in a race against time. On her first voyage home to England from her wintering grounds in the Cape of Good Hope, a young swallow named Belle must curb her curiosity to learn the instinct and skill required to survive a perilous race to overcome time and tide. Following the skighway along long-established ribbons of air, things go off-piste when the journey home begins to take her on a course of its choosing. For every encounter that awakens her fledgling senses, Belle’s chances of making it back to Britain to carry out nature's work recede fast. From far and wide we all come home in the end. It's just that some of us take that bit longer.