READER Reviews
Elsetime by Eve McDonnell
Everything With Words, £8.99
Review by Sholto, age nine
This is a story of an adventure that involves magic and time travel. Two twelve-year-old children from different centuries – one, an orphaned jewellery apprentice with only one hand, named Gloria, who lives in 1928; the other a mudlarker named Needle who can hear colour and read the stories in the treasure he finds and who comes from 1864 – are brought together by an extraordinary crow called Magpie (you’ll have to read the book to find out why that’s his name!). The big question is: can Gloria and Needle – and the crow – save their town of Inthington from a terrible flood (the Great Flood of London, which really did happen in 1928) and re-write time?
It is an amazing book, totally gripping, and I
