Billy Elliot

Author: BURGESS, MELVIN

Children's, Teenage & educational

Published on 15 April 2001 by THE CHICKEN HOUSE (N/A).

Paperback |
205 x 143 | 120g

Billy Elliot's tough, funny and heart-warming story is given new

depth by best-selling author, Melvin Burgess.

Billy's mother is dead, and his father and brother are fiercely involved

in a bitter miners' fight that has split the local community.

Billy's father wants his son to learn boxing, like he did and

his father before him. But Billy is fascinated by the grace and

magic of ballet and is determined to dance his way to a different

future.

Told from the differing viewpoints of Billy, his father and brother

and his friend Michael, Melvin Burgess has captured the spirit

of the original film screenplay while demonstrating the skill and

inspiration he showed in his award-winning novel, Junk.