This is her story – as she bears witness to a love so complete so sure, that not even death can prove final.
But the loss of her friend to the arms of Orpheus is nothing compared to the loss she feels when Ella is taken from the world. She witnesses a love so dramatic it is as if her best friend has been captured and taken from her. She’s there when the whirlwind arrives on the scene: catapulted into a North East landscape of gutted shipyards of high arched bridges and ancient collapsed mines. I knew them both… knew how they lived and how they died.”Ĭlaire is Ella Grey’s best friend. Set in the urban landscape and coastal headlands of the North East of England, David Almond brings his legendary storytelling to this heart-breaking tale, giving it the intoxicating urgency and absolute beauty he is so admired for. An epic new novel from the award winning author of SKELLIGĪ lyrical teenage love story inspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
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