Eleanor

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Eleanor is the story of choices that ripple through time far beyond the moment theyre made. And what happens when, just sometimes, bonds are so powerful they reach
beyond this world and into another
1962, Anchor Bend, Oregon.

The sea calls to Eleanor. Like the turn of the waves it beckons her from the heart of the town shes always known, from her husband Hob and their young daughter, Agnes, to the unfathomable depths of the ocean.

1985

Agness daughter Eleanor is six years old. She shares her name with the grandmother she never knew and everything else with her identical twin, Esmerelda. But to Agnes, only Eleanor is a constant reminder of the past.

1993

After a dark event leaves her family in tatters, Eleanor, now fourteen, is left caring for her alcoholic mother, whose grief has torn her apart. But when Eleanors reality begins to unravel, she starts to lose her grip on time itself, slipping from the present into strange other lands where shes in danger of losing herself altogether.

Reviews

Jason Gurley will be a household name one day Hugh Howey, New York Times-bestselling author of WOOL

Gurley's masterful prose is reminiscent of Neil Gaimanenchanting, magical and powerful. Ernie Lindsey, USA Today-bestselling author of SARAS GAME

An ambitious book of many wondersby turns otherworldly and heartbreakingly true. Elizabeth Collison, author of
SOME OTHER TOWN

Jason Gurley is the kind of storyteller that makes you excited to sit down and spend a day reading. Ted Kosmatka, author of PROPHET OF BONES

Ambitious, challengingas original as A Wrinkle in Time. Michael Bunker, author of PENNSYLVANIA

A really poignant, moving storysneaks up on you (with) a series of emotional uppercuts. Read it and weep. Daniel H. Wilson, bestselling author of ROBOPOCALYPSE

A virtuoso performanceEleanor might
just be the book of the year. Russell Blake, bestselling author of JET

Hauntingif you liked
The Ocean at the End of the Lane,
you'll love Eleanor. Peter Cawdron, author of FEEDBACK and ANOMALY

Author Bio

Jason Gurley is the author of the bestselling Greatfall, as well as The Man Who Ended the World, the Movement Trilogy and the fiction collection Deep Breath Hold Tight. Jason is a designer by trade, and has designed book covers for bestselling authors Hugh Howey, Max Allan Collins, Gary Whitta and others. He lives and writes in Portland, Oregon.Learn more about Jason and his books at www.jasongurley.com