Promo for Housing Elephants by Eleanor Lloyd Jones
Book: Housing Elephants
Author: Eleanor Lloyd-Jones
Genre: New Adult
Release Date – 20th
November
Synopsis
“… And the greatest of
these is love.”
Love is patient and kind…
Its strength can build bridges and knock down walls. It can give people hope - a
purpose. But there is a side to love that is unforgiving and cruel - a side to love
that breaks hearts.
Love can suffocate, and
love can turn to hate.
Billy Taylor meandered
through life, only ever giving half. Ruled by his father’s grief, he gave up on his
own dreams in a bid to keep life ticking along, desperately craving the
unconditional love of his parents. It wasn’t until Eve Swallow fell into his life
again, rousing his empty heart, that he dared to hope for a chance to live life on
his terms.
Never quite good enough
in the eyes of her overpowering mother, Eve kept herself locked away inside her
own head, immersing herself in her passion for art and music, and doing
anything in her power to avoid getting close to anyone. When she connected
with Billy’s eyes, that still haunted her dreams after so long, fear kicked in, and
all she could do was the one thing she was sure would protect her…
Run.
If two lost souls collided
and a love so deep was born, it would surely take a herd of elephants to tear
them apart…
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Bio
Raised in a little village in North Wales, a fierce love of
books and reading was instilled in Eleanor by her parents from a very early age,
and she has vivid memories of reading secretly under the blankets with a torch
for hours after lights out, often getting caught! She was blown away by The
Borribles Trilogy - Michael De Larrabeiti at nine years old, and it was then that
she fell head over heels with idea of imaginary worlds.
A persistent and professional daydreamer, something she still
prides herself on being, she spent most of her early childhood inside her own
head making up stories or scenarios, climbing trees, building dens or doing
anything arts and crafty. Music also played a huge part of her young life. Growing
up on The Beatles, U2 and Status Quo, her obsession with Top of the Pops and
vinyl twelve inches grew into a love affair with music that has only grown and
expanded over time: there is rarely a moment where music is not playing in her
life, and in turn, rarely a time when she is not singing, even if it is in her
head!
She had always thought she would write a
book some day - it has been an ambition for as long
as she can remember - and has always been told that she ‘has a way with words’.
Over the years, she’s dabbled in the odd piece of prose, helped friends to write
letters and résumés and prides herself on
her hilarious lyrical genius when composing poems for friends birthdays! Life,
however, got in the way and her dream was stored on the back burner as she put
herself through university and started a family. It was only when she was
nearing the ‘forty’ milestone that she decided it was time she got some of the ramblings and chatterings in her head down
on paper.
A creative, guitar-playing mum of one boisterous, but pretty damn cool boy, she classes herself
as a Yorkshire gal now after moving to Leeds when she
was eleven. Eleanor works full time as a teacher, but grabs every spare minute
she can to write; be it on the train, lunchtimes at school or foregoing sleep for an
extra hour or two in the evenings. Her hope for the future is for people to fall in
love with her characters as much as she does. Not a big ask really!
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