The Rocky Pathway
Number 3 in the Pathway series - by Hazel Goss
It is 2048. Thirteen-year-old Daniel is clambering at Brimham rocks when he finds another portal to the past. When he returns to find his family at the car park, the car park is not there. His solafone does not work. He feels frightened and confused but with no alternative he walks towards Harrogate. Jason, Xen and other characters from the previous books try to find Daniel and return him to the present.
He has been whisked into 1859 and only Xen knows it is a one-way portal.
Daniel can never return.
Daniel’s mother, Izzy and his grandma, Catherine, sort out the loft as a panacea for grief. They discover a letter from Daniel, kept in a box for nearly 200 years. They read he is safe and living in a farm in Burnt Yates.
Daniel is homesick but bravely tries to make the best of his new life and then Smallpox hits the small community. Daniel has not been vaccinated. Will he survive the epidemic? Will he ever return to his own time?
Only the sand timer can help but where is it?
“This is the third and final book in the "Pathway" series. Once again it is an easy read that quickly becomes a "page-turner" as the characters find themselves separated from their family not in location but in time. The early part of the story centres on a young teenager who finds himself transported back 200 years and having to quickly learn a whole new set of skills in order to survive (despite his superior education).
The narrative includes some well researched details of life in rural Yorkshire in the mid nineteenth century and navigates the intricacies of time travel with consummate ease. I would recommend this book to all."
Philip Dutton, Germany
7 January 2022
“It was great meeting all the characters from the previous two books and seeing them all come together on a final mission to save lives and take the reader through yet another era in the past and the future. It was brought alive through our trusty heroes and the characters from the mid nineteenth century and the way people lived in that time. Sorry to leave them all behind. I'm already looking forward to a new series of adventures from this author.”
