Ella

by Uri Geller

Book Overview

Fourteen-year-old Ella Wallis is a typical unhappy teenager. Bullied at school, misunderstood by her family, she just wants to be left alone. But Ella has one thing most teenagers don't: telekinetic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0747259208
• ISBN13: 9780747259206
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Headline Book Publishing
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.4" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

A first rate novel

This is a surprising and fascinating book. I confess when I first saw it I thought, "Oh, how curious", and then put it back on the shelf. Another "celebrity" book, I thought, that was probably not particularly well-written or thought-out. However, I read some other reviews and decided to give it a try. The result was that both of my negative assumptions were proven quite wrong.Geller is a very good writer; his skill shines in character development, plotting, pacing, etc... The book was, for me, truly a page turner. But more - I often find myself getting bored with fast-paced books if there is no sense of meaning underlying the action. With ELLA, I was compelled to keep reading, but even beyond the fully engaging plot there was a strong thematic sense that held everything together, that made me feel like I wasn't just passing the time as I read the novel. In other words, ELLA is a solid and satisfying work of fiction that is more than just entertaining - though it's certainly that as well.

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality. This book is very good. In this remarkable novel Uri Geller tells you how to be an Extraordinary Person in an Ordinary World. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a New World is born. Ella's story it consider example, attitude, humor,values, generosity, faith, courage, power and love. Uri Geller is an Extraordinary Psychic who help you to be more yourself.

Totally Amazing.

Geller's tale of a 14-year-old Bristol girl with God-like paranormal power is more than the normal psychic thriller. It not only covers familiar territory with miracle power cures and erie, unexplained happenins, but goes a step beyond to pose questions such as to whether the world would ever accept another Christ-like figure. But her poltergeist activities are only the starting point for an extraordinary array of abilities wich threaten to turn her life upside down. I am convinced that Geller is a fine writer. This is an excellent first novel, gripping and compulsive with finely crafted characters and a twisting, unpredictable plot.

A Journey into the Mystcal Realm

Uri Geller's Ella is a story of a bulimic fourteen year old girl abused by her parents, a alcoholic mother, and a fundamentalist Christian father which makes her withdraw into the supernatural world of angels and levitation. The only love and emotional support Ella knows is from her brother Frank which develops into a close wonderful telepathic communication. Read the book and find out how Ella is able to save her brother's life. Is it the power of love and prayer? This novel is so powerful that it will move your very being emotionally everytime you re-read it. Peter Gauderson, the journalist that Ella learns to trust and love is able to telepathically communicate with her, is a good man in the beginning. How sad when greed takes over his heart and he exploits Ella for his own personal gain. Uri Geller gives a very graphic discription of the horrors of suicide that will stay with you long after you finish the novel. Can Ella raise Peter from the dead or will she give her teddy bear to Jesus? Will Peter discover the true meaning of love and joy only marriage can give? It should warm your heart that "part of the proceeds" are going to the Bristol Children's Hospital and the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. Crystal Rose

Fascinating read!

Well-known psychic Geller turns from nonfiction (Uri Geller's Mindpower Kit) to fiction in his latest book, and though his original motive may have been to advocate his beliefs, the result is a most respectable piece of storytelling. Fourteen-year-old Ella Wallis, the daughter of an unhappy working-class family (with a domineering, adulterous father and an insensitive, alcoholic mother) in Bristol, England, suddenly finds herself developing uncontrollable paranormal powers - books fly around her, a forceful whining sound surrounds her whenever she's frightened. As her destructive powers increase, she is ostracized by schoolmates and soon becomes the center of a media circus. The publicity provokes a three-cornered power struggle between psychic researcher Peter Guntarson, public relations mogul José Miguel Dóla and Ella's avaricious family. As Ella becomes more adept, capable of levitation, teleportation and worldwide healing, her intense friendship with Guntarson appears to give him the victory. But Ella's capabilities are wearing away at her health and sanity, and she may not survive Guntarson's final challenge. Geller's novel recalls the themes of both The Exorcist and Carrie, but it does so with intelligence, wit and an abundance of well-chosen detail, fleshing out even such unsympathetic characters as Ella's father, Ken. Geller's acerbic portrait of the sensationalist media adds a new twist to this predictable but engaging tale. (June)FYI: Geller next book, Mind Medicine, will be published by Element in October.Publishers Weekly