Inventing Elliot

Gardner, Graham

ISBN 10: 1842552635 / ISBN 13: 9781842552636

Published by Orion Children's Books, London, 2003

About this Item

1st/1st printing. SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE, with the words "best wishes." Unread copy. Teenage fiction but any age would enjoy reading this first novel about the terrors and rituals of surviving adolescence. Seller Inventory # 002801

Bibliographic Details

Title: Inventing Elliot

Publisher: Orion Children's Books, London

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Elliot was beaten up by bullies at his old school. He is determined to reinvent himself at the new school. This time he will be so cool that no one will touch him.
But he is too successful. He is taken up by the Guardians, the mysterious group who control the whole school, manipulating others to create a reign of terror. He is invited to become a Guardian himself and goes along with it. He is not going to get hurt again, whatever it takes. Until he realizes that he is as good as dead unless he takes the risk of standing up for himself.
Written with great power and economy, this psychological novel was inspired by George Orwell's 1984 and is reminiscent of those two great children's writers Robert Cormier and Robert Westall. It has strong characters, strong moral dilemmas and a story that moves at a great pace to a highly dramatic ending. It is an incisive and compelling look at the terrors and rituals of adolescence and you're there with Elliot every step of the way.

About the Author:

Graham Gardner is 26, the second of ten children. He has worked as a shop assistant, a waiter, a factory worker, a civil servant, and a research officer, and is now completing his Ph D at the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences at the University of Wales. He is also a keen musician, playing rock and classical piano. He lives partly in Aberystwyth and partly at his parents' house in the Malvern Hills.