Elsewhere
From the author of no. 1 bestseller Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Published on 1. February 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-5266-7583-5 (ISBN)
Description
From the acclaimed author of Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, a YA novel of hope, love and redemption about Liz's life after life.
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME
Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are beautiful. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick and you can't get older. In Elsewhere, death is only the beginning ...
Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she is killed in a hit-and-run accident. It is a place very like Earth, yet completely different. Here Liz will age backwards from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. She wants to get her driving licence. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. She doesn't want to get to know a grandmother she's never met before and have to make all-new friends.
How can Liz let go of the only life she has ever known and embrace a new one? Or is it possible that a life lived in reverse is no different from a life lived forward?
"Every so often a book comes along with a premise so fresh and arresting it seems to exist in a category all its own. Elsewhere is such a book" - New York Times Book Review
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME
Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are beautiful. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick and you can't get older. In Elsewhere, death is only the beginning ...
Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she is killed in a hit-and-run accident. It is a place very like Earth, yet completely different. Here Liz will age backwards from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. She wants to get her driving licence. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. She doesn't want to get to know a grandmother she's never met before and have to make all-new friends.
How can Liz let go of the only life she has ever known and embrace a new one? Or is it possible that a life lived in reverse is no different from a life lived forward?
"Every so often a book comes along with a premise so fresh and arresting it seems to exist in a category all its own. Elsewhere is such a book" - New York Times Book Review
Reviews / Votes
Every so often a book comes along with a premise so fresh and arresting it seems to exist in a category all its own. Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin, is such a book. Zevin's touch is marvelously light even as she considers profundities, easily moving among humor, wisdom and lyricism ... No plot synopsis can convey what a rich, wise spell this book casts * The New York Times Book Review * Fascinating. Zevin, in her first novel for young people, bends the laws of physics and biology to create an intricately imagined world * Publishers Weekly * So convincing you find yourself wanting to read the book backwards when you've finished * Sunday Telegraph * Pose[s] intriguing questions about identity and connection -- Imogen Russell Williams * Guardian *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Young adult
Interest Age: From 12 years
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
208 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5266-7583-5 (9781526675835)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
07/2016
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Childrens Books
€8.49
Available for download
Person
Gabrielle Zevin is the author of the bestselling Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow plus award-winning books for young adults including Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac. In 2021, Elsewhere became one of TIME magazine's 100 Best YA Books of All Time. Of her writing, the New York Times Book Review said, 'Zevin's touch is marvelously light even as she considers profundities.' A dog lover and Harvard graduate, she lives in Los Angeles.