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Name: A Song for Ella Grey
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
Author: David Almond

Claire and Ella and their friends are bound by ties so strong they seem unbreakable. Then the strange and handsome Orpheus strolls onto the beach, and he sings them all into an astonishing new understanding of themselves. Ella is caught the hardest, fastest, deepest and Claire is left with the pain of looking on.

First publish date: 2014

Authors: David Almond

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