Whispers Through a Megaphone by Rachel Elliott

Beautifully written, it kept me gripped as the truth began to unravel- Jules Swain It's a wonderful exploration of family and friendships and how covering up the truth can lead to unnecessary pain. Utterly exquisite, heart-wrenching and heart-warming'- NB Magazine

You come away from reading a story such as this not feeling quite so bad about yourself. I love the way her stories are populated by characters who don't quite seem to neatly fit into the mainstream.

It is vibrant and glorious, full of life and colour and pain and love- Julie Cohen ' Flamingo is the most wonderful, life-affirming, readable book about two families who quite by chance end up living next to each other'- Mary Ann Sieghartīeautifully written, witty, clever, and a proper page-turner- Felicity Hayes-McCoy Set in 2018 and the 80s, it's a song for the broken-hearted and the big-hearted, and is, ultimately, a novel grown from gratitude, and a book full of wild hope. It's a celebration of kindness, of tenderness. Where is Eve? And what, exactly, is her story?įLAMINGO is a novel about the power of love, welcome and acceptance. And when he turns up at Sherry's door, it's almost as if they've all come home again. But then Eve left and everything went grey. Sherry and Leslie and their daughters, Rae and Pauline - and Eve and her son Daniel.

Something for a boy to confide in.įirst, there were the flamingos. Not real flamingos, but real emblems, real gateways to a time when life was impossibly good. I n the garden, there were three flamingos. A novel of love, homelessness, and learning to be fearless

Whispers Through a Megaphone by Rachel Elliott