About The Ordeals of Elly Robin:
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 the first volume of P.D. Quaver’s extraordinary multi-volume saga, THE ORDEALS OF ELLY ROBIN.
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Author Bio:
P.D. Quaver is a retired musician. In a long life as a professional pianist, he has played everything from Bach and Beethoven to jazz, ragtime, and blues, including most everything the fictional Elly Robin performs in his books. In addition to “The Ordeals of Elly Robin” series, he is the author of the young adult thriller “Unplugged.”