Synopsis
Elliot, a victim of bullying, invents a calmer, cooler self when he changes schools in the middle of freshman year, but soon attracts the wrong kind of attention from the Guardians who "maintain order" at the new school.
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Review
Powerfully written ... don't expect to be able to put Inventing Elliot down (Time Out)
Chilling, powerfully written and occasionally disturbing (Irish Times)
An extraordinary novel ... powerful and intense (Birmingham Post)
Taut with menace from the very first page (The Daily Telegraph)
Taut and compelling (Financial Times)
A compulsively readable story (Time Out)
Astonishingly good (Bristol Evening Post)
A powerful first novel full of psychological realism (The Bookseller)
Marks the arrival of an important new talent ... the journey the story takes always surprises and sometimes shocks with its intensity (The Bookseller)
Elliot's dilemma makes riveting reading (The Children's Bookseller)
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The critically-acclaimed psychological novel about what happens when a young teenager decides to become a different person.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Z3 - An advance reading copy paperback book in very good condition has some dent on the bottom page edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. The Guardians have summoned someone else for punishment. Most don't even know who the Guardians are. but eveyone knows they must be obeyed. 8.25"x5.5", 181 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy (ARC). Seller Inventory # EC38880BB