The Ordeals of Elly Robin

By P.D. Quaver

In the year 1906 a vaudeville troupe is making its way across the country. Among them is a six year old girl whose distaste for speaking or looking anyone in the eye makes people think she's "touched"--but who plays the piano like a young Mozart. Billed as "Baby Elly Robin, the Wonderchild," she is one of the stars of the show. The troupe arrives in San Francisco just in time to experience the city's destruction by a devastating earthquake. Next day a small girl is found wandering through the smoking ruins, clutching her blackened doll, mute and traumatized. Unable to determine her identity (and convinced she's an imbecile), the authorities consign her to a dismal children's asylum... So begins P.D. Quaver's extraordinary multi-volume saga, The Ordeals of Elly Robin.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08CG3GLPL
• ISBN13: 9798638792855
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 361 Pages
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.9" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

An extremely enjoyable, if maybe a bit pulpy, story of an amazing girl

Due to subject matter, not as "for kids" as it appears. I wouldn't recommend it to a child younger than 15 or so. Contains gruesome death, horrendous suffering, rape, violence, institutional torture. Elly Robin is an autistic child in the early 1900's, and a musical prodigy. Throughout the series, she will overcome incredible hardships and do amazing things while she sort of "Forrest Gump"s her way through historical events and meets historical figures. I highly HIGHLY recommend reading the entire series WITHOUT reading the synopses on the backs of the books or product descriptions, as they will contain spoilers for earlier books. Just buy them all and read them in order.