Elidor (Essential Modern Classics)

Alan Garner

Aug 2013 · Sold by HarperCollins UK

About this ebook

From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker and the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize-winning classic, The Owl Service

Roland, Helen, Nicholas and David, four Manchester children, are led into Elidor, a twilight world almost destroyed by fear and darkness.

On a gloomy day in Manchester, Roland, Helen, Nicholas and David are lured into a ruined church, where the fabric of time and place is weak enough to allow them into the twilight world of Elidor. It is a place almost destroyed by fear and darkness, and the children are charged with guarding its Treasures while a way is sought to save the dying land.

Then the evil forces find a path through to this world...

This new edition of Alan Garner’s classic includes a special “Why You’ll Love This Book” introduction from bestselling author, Jonathan Stroud.

Ratings and reviews

Thoroughly absorbing, wonderfully written, for any age. Read them all, as good as John Gordon (The Giant Under The Snow.

Very good book read it at junior school I'm now 60 absolutely love it a credit to Alan for it and other titles

I read this in junior school and read it again last year at 52. Loved it.

About the author

Alan Garner was born in Cheshire on 17th October 1934, and his childhood was spent in Alderley Edge, where his family has lived for more than four hundred years. He was awarded the OBE in 2001, for his services to literature.