Essential Modern Classics - Elidor (Essential Modern Classics)
From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker and the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize-winning classic, The Owl Service
Roland, Helen, Nicholas and David, four Manchester children, are led into Elidor, a twilight world almost destroyed by fear and darkness.
On a gloomy day in Manchester, Roland, Helen, Nicholas and David are lured into a ruined church, where the fabric of time and place is weak enough to allow them into the twilight world of Elidor. It is a place almost destroyed by fear and darkness, and the children are charged with guarding its Treasures while a way is sought to save the dying land.
Then the evil forces find a path through to this world…
This new edition of Alan Garner’s classic includes a special “Why You’ll Love This Book” introduction from bestselling author, Jonathan Stroud.
Praise for Alan Garner -
”Praise for The Moon of Gomrath: 'Not only powerful but full of wild and whirling adventure… the reader is drawn right into the midst of it all.” - Guardian
”Praise for The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: 'Marvellously exciting… Alan Garner is at his best writing of night and dark water… the story is ferocious and deeply felt.” - New Statesman
”Praise for The Owl Service: 'Not meant only for children… The power grows, throbs nearer, builds to unbearable tension, and comes to wild release in the last few pages.” - The Guardian
”Praise for Red Shift: 'A magnificently multilayered novel… and a superbly exciting piece of literature.” - The Times