A song for Ella Grey
By: David Almond ; illustrations, Karen Radford
Contributors: Radford, Karen, illustrator
Publisher: Hodder Childrens Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781444922134; 9781444919547; 9781444924756
Subjects: Juvenile fiction; Teenagers; Fiction
Description: "I'm the one who's left behind. I'm the one to tell the tale. I knew them both ... knew how they lived and how they died."Claire is Ella Grey's best friend. 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. She witnesses a love so dramatic it is as if her best friend has been captured and taken from her. 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. This is her story - as she bears witness to a love so complete; so sure, that not even death can prove final.
Table of contents: title: "I'm the one who's left behind. I'm the one to tell the tale. I knew them both ... knew how they lived and how they died."Claire is Ella Grey's best friend. 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. She witnesses a love so dramatic it is as if her best friend has been captured and taken from her. 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. This is her story; title: as she bears witness to a love so complete; so sure, that not even death can prove final.