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Dear Olly
Michael Morpurgo


Discover the beautiful stories of Michael Morpurgo, author of Warhorse and the nation’s favourite storytellerA moving story of a brother, a sister and a swallow, and how all are in some way victims of the horrors of landmines.Olly’s brother Matt wants to go and work with children who have been made orphans, through war, in Africa. He wants to be a clown and make them laugh. His mother and sister want him to stay in England and go to university.Hero, a swallow, has a journey to make too. He must fly to Africa for the winter to join all the other swallows. His journey is difficult and fraught with danger.Three separate stories are woven into one powerful and moving novel whose central theme not only exposes the horrors of war and of landmines, but also the endurance of the human spirit.










Dear Olly

Michael Morpurgo


Illustrated by




Christian Birmingham

















For Daniel Bennett




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I have often thought of writing a story in movements rather than chapters – like a symphony. But for this I needed a story with three distinct yet linked themes, each with a different mood. Perhaps it was the moods and rhythms of the seasons that suggested this to me. And for me, it is swallows that are the magical conductors of the seasons.



I came across two stories that enabled me to compose my symphony story: one movement here, at home on the farm in Devon, one in Africa – and the two themes linked by a third, the swallow’s flight from home to Africa.



I heard of a young Frenchman, so moved by the misery and horror of war and suffering in Rwanda that he gave up everything, and left at once to help in the only way he knew how.



Then, a good friend of mine suffered a dreadful car accident. Full of admiration, I watched how he coped with the pain, with the change it brought to his life. I charted his recovery, his rebuilding of himself.



Dear Olly, is a story about nobility and courage, courage against all the odds – the young Frenchman’s, the swallow’s and my friend’s.

I hope you love reading it as much as I loved writing it.



MICHAEL MORPURGO

September 2000




Contents


Cover Page (#u7dff3278-4fb5-5159-9db0-fae9cfc512ce)

Title Page (#u7db8acd9-c99b-51ff-9d18-7a85bf25d3c0)

Dedication (#u56be3065-31f7-5bb7-b577-958cfa5d202a)

Dear Olly, (#u76c7c6f0-3e74-529d-8a0c-081451b1fdeb)

Olly’s Story (#uab1d925e-2676-5248-a921-b757edbf2d3a)

Hero’s Story (#u406959aa-b8b5-544b-90bb-9ed23e3f7fd9)

Matt’s Story (#u7edffdff-b543-51ab-8ef9-3922629e7376)

Keep Reading (#ua48061e4-84a3-52ad-b2cf-94af3400b907)

Acknowledgements (#u044ac8ef-aee8-5c07-8fcf-25305c2da33c)

Also by Michael Morpurgo (#ucf8a4d24-210d-5d95-96f5-b36d2490ea5e)

Copyright (#u75f396ac-e092-5745-9908-3afe55ed616d)

About the Publisher (#uf857f38b-20e3-5358-b7d7-17ea3e22ce50)




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