David Almond Wins Guardian Children's Fiction Prize

Book2BookFriday 20 Nov 2015

David Almond has won the Guardian children's fiction prize with a "fearless" retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice set in north-east England.
Judge and author Jenny Valentine described the book as "an absolute masterclass in the transformative power of language. It is fearless, free and full of wonder and I am changed by reading it." Fellow judge Natasha Farrant said that reading the story of Ella Grey "hasn't just changed the way I look at Orpheus. It has changed the way I look at the world."


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