Publisher Description

A welcome reissue of this wartime classic from the author of Birdy.
During WW II, a dying American soldier, William Wiley, and his German captor, Wilhelm Klug, are miraculously rescued by a fox endowed with extraordinary powers, Franky William, the experience is indisputably true but when he discovers later that neither his wife nor children believe in Franky, he endures a crisis of faith and searches desperately for the Furbo is a modern fable with a remarkable twist, quite unlike anything Wharton wrote before or since.

Review

'Will appeal to anyone who liked (and still does) Watership Down or C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia' – Patrick Gale

Long Description

A welcome reissue of this wartime classic from the author of Birdy. During WW II, a dying American soldier, William Wiley, and his German captor, Wilhelm Klug, are miraculously rescued by a fox endowed with extraordinary powers, Franky Furbo. For William, the experience is indisputably true but when he discovers later that neither his wife nor children believe in Franky, he endures a crisis of faith and searches desperately for the truth. Franky Furbo is a modern fable with a remarkable twist, quite unlike anything Wharton wrote before or since.

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'Will appeal to anyone who liked (and still does) Watership Down or C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia' - Patrick Gale

Feature

Competition: Silas Marner; Lady Chatterley'S Lover. William Wharton;George Eliot; D H Lawrence;

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A welcome reissue of this wartime classic from the author of Birdy. During WW II, a dying American soldier, William Wiley, and his German captor, Wilhelm Klug, are miraculously rescued by a fox endowed with extraordinary powers, Franky Furbo. For William, the experience is indisputably true but when he discovers later that neither his wife nor children believe in Franky, he endures a crisis of faith and searches desperately for the truth. Franky Furbo is a modern fable with a remarkable twist, quite unlike anything Wharton wrote before or since.

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