Elidor Read By Alan Garner
| Title | : | Elidor |
| Author | : | Alan Garner |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 160 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0006707939 |
Round, and round, his voice went, an through it cam ea noise I was low and vibrant, like wind in a chimney It grew louder, taut, and the wall blurred, and the floor shook The noise was in the fabric of the church it pulsed with sound Then he heard a heavy door open and close and the noise faded away It was now too still in the church, and the footsteps were m Round, and round, his voice went, an through it cam ea noise I was low and vibrant, like wind in a chimney It grew louder, taut, and the wall blurred, and the floor shook The noise was in the fabric of the church it pulsed with sound Then he heard a heavy door open and close and the noise faded away It was now too still in the church, and the footsteps were moving over the rubble in the passage downstairs Who s that said Roland.The footsteps reached the stairs , and began to climb.From that chilling moment, Roland was precipitated into the twilight world of Elidor, where the powers of evil had all but extinguished the last remaining glimmer of light and hope.This is the very stuff that imaginative children s dreams are made on School Librarian
about Author
Alan Garner OBE born 17 October 1934 is an English novelist who is best known for his children s fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales His work is firmly rooted in the landscape, history and folklore of his native county of Cheshire, North West England, being set in the region and making use of the native Cheshire dialect.Born into a working class family in Conglet Alan Garner OBE born 17 October 1934 is an English novelist who is best known for his children s fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales His work is firmly rooted in the landscape, history and folklore of his native county of Cheshire, North West England, being set in the region and making use of the native Cheshire dialect.Born into a working class family in Congleton, Cheshire, Garner grew up around the nearby town of Alderley Edge, and spent much of his youth in the wooded area known locally as The Edge , where he gained an early interest in the folklore of the region Studying at Manchester Grammar School and then Oxford University, in 1957 he moved to the nearby village of Blackden, where he bought and renovated an Early Modern building known as Toad Hall His first novel, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, was published in 1960 A children s fantasy novel set on the Edge, it incorporated elements of local folklore in its plot and characters Garner completed a sequel, The Moon of Gomrath 1963 , but left the third book of the trilogy he had envisioned Instead he produced a string of further fantasy novels, Elidor 1965 , The Owl Service 1967 and Red Shift 1973.Turning away from fantasy as a genre, Garner produced The Stone Book Quartet 1979 , a series of four short novellas detailing a day in the life of four generations of his family He also published a series of British folk tales which he had rewritten in a series of books entitled Alan Garner s Fairy Tales of Gold 1979 , Alan Garner s Book of British Fairy Tales 1984 and A Bag of Moonshine 1986 In his subsequent novels, Strandloper 1996 and Thursbitch 2003 , he continued writing tales revolving around Cheshire, although without the fantasy elements which had characterised his earlier work In 2012, he finally published a third book in the Weirdstone trilogy.Reference Note There is than one author in the GoodReads database with this name See this thread for information. 
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Tales of Alderley, #1)
The Owl Service
The Moon of Gomrath (Tales of Alderley, #2)
Red Shift
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Round, and round, his voice went, an through it cam ea noise I was low and vibrant, like wind in a chimney It grew louder, taut, and the wall blu
160 pagesAlan Garner
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