![]() ![]() Even when the story becomes tragic and the prose grows stranger and darker it still flows exquisitely. ![]() It is the rare sort of writing that you can fall in love with. The writing in this book is flawless, poetically gliding from beauty to sorrow. This way of telling the story also shows how, later in the book, Claire becomes worried and almost possessive of Ella, spending less time with the others. ![]() While I would have liked to have found out more about the minor characters in the group and their lives, I also like the way that this novel has many of the characteristics of a fable, in that it revolves around the central characters, Claire, Orpheus and Ella most of their friends simply serve as a backdrop for their story. Ordinary as they may have been compared to some of the later scenes in the book, I loved the opening scenes where the group of friends make music and play by the sea they seemed so real. Ella's adoptive parents disapprove of her friends and force her to stay at home while the others go on an Easter camping trip on the dunes of Bamburgh beach, where they meet a mysterious wanderer named Orpheus, who carries a lyre and entrances them with his otherworldly song. Trying to make the most of their youth alongside the pressures of school and exams, Claire, Ella and their friends long for freedom and love to dream of their futures as artists and musicians. Claire, the narrator, has been best friends with beautiful, dreamy Ella Grey since they were five years old. ![]()
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