Elena Ferrante takes on a new identity – as a children's author

‘Scary’ story of an abandoned doll aimed at readers aged between six and 10 due to appear in English this autumn

Elena Ferrante, the elusive Italian author who has become a literary sensation, is moving into the children’s market, publishing a scary new story narrated by a doll.

According to Ferrante’s UK and US publisher, an English translation of La spiaggia di notte (The Beach at Night) will be published this autumn. First published in Italian in 2007, the story is told in the voice of Celina – a doll who first appeared in Ferrante’s novel The Lost Daughter, in which she is stolen by Ferrante’s protagonist Leda.

She stopped to wait for me, and when I reached her she gave me her hand. This gesture changed everything between us forever.

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