A Medal for Leroy

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A novel about families, identity and loss by bestselling award-winning author of WAR HORSE. But then Auntie Snowdrop gives Michael a medal, followed by a photograph, which begins to reveal a hidden history. A secret story about his family and who Michael's father really was. a story that will change everything. Together they visit two elderly women who looked after his father as a boy. Growing up just after World War Two, Michael lives alone with his mother. Michael doesn’t remember his father, an RAF pilot lost in the war. Inspired by the true story of Walter Tull, the first black officer in the British army. Michael doesn't remember his father.