Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "This is an unusual and absorbing story - a real discovery."
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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"Intensely moving. [An] exceptional novel."
--Boston Globe
A poignant and magical story set in eighteenth-century England, The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson is the tale of two baby elephants and the young man who accidentally finds himself their guardian. Every reader who was enchanted by Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants or enthralled by When Elephants Weep will adore Nicholson's The Elephant Keeper--a masterful blending of historical novel, coming-of-age tale, animal adventure, and love story.
The Elephant Keeper features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
The Elephant Keeper is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Elephant Keeper was written by Christopher Nicholson and published by William Morrow & Company an imprint of HarperCollins
The Elephant Keeper has 320 pages
