OLDER FICTION
Almond, David

A Song for Ella Grey

(2) YA Set on Britain's northeast coast, Almond's contemporary-set story echoes that of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice: teen Ella falls in love with Orpheus; they're wed; Ella dies; and Orpheus retrieves her from death only to lose her at the last minute. Almond's prose has always been intense, sensual, and vivid: here his very subject matter is intensity of feeling with a capital F.

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