***The paperback edition includes an exclusive deleted chapter***
'Sharp, powerful, tragic, addictive' Chris Whitaker
‘Dark, compelling and beguiling’ Kate Mosse
‘An engrossing read' The Sunday Times
‘Intensely gripping’ Karin Slaughter
‘Thrilling and deeply atmospheric’ Lucy Clarke
***
Rose is sixteen when she arrives at High Realms boarding school, excited for the beginning of the rest of her life.
By the time she leaves, she and the three other scholarship students will have made the choices that decide their future.
Each one as heartbreaking and tragic as the last.
***
Readers are RAVING about THE FOUR:
'A shockingly powerful debut… raw and unflinching, not for the faint of heart' ?????
'Beautifully written and utterly brutal' ?????
'Complex and heart wrenching and oh so gripping' ?????
‘If you can handle true emotional pain in your fiction, then don't let this one pass you by’?????
Ellie Keel's book 'The Four' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2024-04-08.
The instant Sunday Times best-seller and new must-read psychological dark academia thriller debut of 2025
Ellie Keel is an award-winning producer and campaigner. She is the Founder Director of The Women’s Prize for Playwriting, a literary prize and campaign for gender equality among writers for the stage in the UK and Ireland. In 2022 she was the youngest producer ever to be shortlisted for Producer of the Year in The Stage Awards. She is based in London.
***The paperback edition includes an exclusive deleted chapter***
'Sharp, powerful, tragic, addictive' Chris Whitaker
‘Dark, compelling and beguiling’ Kate Mosse
‘An engrossing read' The Sunday Times
‘Intensely gripping’ Karin Slaughter
‘Thrilling and deeply atmospheric’ Lucy Clarke
***
Rose is sixteen when she arrives at High Realms boarding school, excited for the beginning of the rest of her life.
By the time she leaves, she and the three other scholarship students will have made the choices that decide their future.
Each one as heartbreaking and tragic as the last.
***
Readers are RAVING about THE FOUR:
'A shockingly powerful debut… raw and unflinching, not for the faint of heart' ?????
'Beautifully written and utterly brutal' ?????
'Complex and heart wrenching and oh so gripping' ?????
‘If you can handle true emotional pain in your fiction, then don't let this one pass you by’?????
Ellie Keel's book 'The Four' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2024-04-08.
The instant Sunday Times best-seller and new must-read psychological dark academia thriller debut of 2025
Ellie Keel is an award-winning producer and campaigner. She is the Founder Director of The Women’s Prize for Playwriting, a literary prize and campaign for gender equality among writers for the stage in the UK and Ireland. In 2022 she was the youngest producer ever to be shortlisted for Producer of the Year in The Stage Awards. She is based in London.
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