How do you describe ELSEWHERE? A novel so astoundingly original and carefully crafted that its complexities become common place and the common place resounds with poetry?
In this delightful novel death is a begining, a new start. Liz is killed in a hit a run accident and her 'life' takes a very unexpected turn. At nearly sixteen she knows she will never get married, never have children, and perhaps never fall in love. But in Elsewhere all things carry on almost as they did on earth except that the inhabitants get younger, dogs and humans can communicate (at last) new relationships are formed and old ones sadly interrupted on earth are renewed.
Full of the most ingenious detail and woven around the most touching and charming relationships this is a novel of hope, of redemption and re-birth. It is a novel that tells of sadness with heart-breaking honesty and of love and happiness with uplifting brilliance.
| ISBN: | 9780747577201 |
| Publication date: | 5th June 2006 |
| Author: | Gabrielle Zevin |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Children's Books an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 273 pages |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Death and grief |