David Almond has made a video specially for us about A Song For Ella Grey – the third book under the spotlight in the Guardian children’s fiction prize series
Also see David’s tale of the Seven Stories
Claire and her best friend, Ella Grey, are ordinary kids from ordinary families in an ordinary world. They’re part of a close bunch of young people, growing up together in the street and schools of Tyneside. They fall in and out of love, play music and dance, stare at the stars, yearn for excitement, and have parties on the beautiful beaches of Northumberland. One day a stranger, a musician called Orpheus, appears on the beach, and entrances them all. Where has he come from? From the wild hills of the North, from the sea, from some mythic past? Ella Grey is the one who falls furthest, fastest, and Orpheus falls for her. Their love is stronger and stranger than anything these young people have known before. Claire tells the tale as she sees her friend drawn into a love that leads her to the shores of Death and beyond. Was Ella’s death destined form the very start? Is it possible to bring her back again? Can Orpheus sing his lost love back to life? It’s a tale of modern teenagers and ancient forces, a tale told since the dawn of time and told again today.
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