Elidor
1st Edition
Published on 15. August 2013
224 pages
978-0-00-738876-9 (ISBN)
Description
From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker and the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning classic, The Owl Service
Roland, Helen, Nicholas and David, four Manchester children, are led into Elidor, a twilight world almost destroyed by fear and darkness.
On a gloomy day in Manchester, Roland, Helen, Nicholas and David are lured into a ruined church, where the fabric of time and place is weak enough to allow them into the twilight world of Elidor. It is a place almost destroyed by fear and darkness, and the children are charged with guarding its Treasures while a way is sought to save the dying land.
Then the evil forces find a path through to this world...
This new edition of Alan Garner's classic includes a special "Why You'll Love This Book" introduction from bestselling author, Jonathan Stroud.
Roland, Helen, Nicholas and David, four Manchester children, are led into Elidor, a twilight world almost destroyed by fear and darkness.
On a gloomy day in Manchester, Roland, Helen, Nicholas and David are lured into a ruined church, where the fabric of time and place is weak enough to allow them into the twilight world of Elidor. It is a place almost destroyed by fear and darkness, and the children are charged with guarding its Treasures while a way is sought to save the dying land.
Then the evil forces find a path through to this world...
This new edition of Alan Garner's classic includes a special "Why You'll Love This Book" introduction from bestselling author, Jonathan Stroud.
Reviews / Votes
Praise for Alan GarnerPraise for The Moon of Gomrath: 'Not only powerful but full of wild and whirling adventure... the reader is drawn right into the midst of it all.' Guardian
Praise for The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: 'Marvellously exciting... Alan Garner is at his best writing of night and dark water... the story is ferocious and deeply felt.' New Statesman
Praise for The Owl Service: 'Not meant only for children... The power grows, throbs nearer, builds to unbearable tension, and comes to wild release in the last few pages.' The Guardian
Praise for Red Shift: 'A magnificently multilayered novel... and a superbly exciting piece of literature.' The Times
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 9 years
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
(Ilustrated)
File size
10,72 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-00-738876-9 (9780007388769)
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Person
Alan Garner was born in Cheshire on 17th October 1934, and his childhood was spent in Alderley Edge, where his family has lived for more than four hundred years. He was awarded the OBE in 2001, for his services to literature.
