The Wide Starlight is a rare gem that swerves hard from the typical young adult formula. When her mother disappears again, though, leaving a note that says, Find me where I left you, Eli knows she’ll have to go back to Svalbard and face the past if she hopes to have any future with her mother. She misses her mother - she loves her mother - but the memory of being abandoned is hard to forget and even harder to forgive. But soon magical, dangerous things begin happening: narwhals appearing in Cape Cod Bay, meteorites landing in their front yard, and three shadowy fairy tale princesses whispering ominous messages.Įli isn’t sure what to think or to feel. So she keeps it a secret - for now - until she can sort through her own feelings. The truth is wrapped in legend and story and magic, and Eli knows no one would believe her if she told them. The plan doesn’t appear to work, until her mother arrives suddenly with a hazy story of where she’s been these many years. They’ve carved out a life for themselves - one with a mother-shaped hole - but when Eli discovers the Northern Lights will be visible for one night, she hatches a plan to contact her missing mother. Now, years later, Eli lives with her dad on Cape Cod. It happened to her mother that night on the remote glacier in Svalbard: Her mother whistled, then vanished. Arctic legend says if you whistle at the Northern Lights, they’ll swoop down and carry you off forever. And so, off to Svalbard Eli goes.Sixteen-year-old Eline Davis still struggles to come to terms with what happened the night her mother left her.
Until she finds the note written in mother's elegant scrawl: Find me where I left you. Her mother's gone again, and Eli's devastated. It's all too much, too fast, and Eli pushes her mother away, not expecting her to disappear as abruptly as she appeared. But when magical, dangerous things start happening-narwhals appearing in Cape Cod Bay, meteorites landing in the yard by the hundreds, three shadowy fairytale princesses whispering ominous messages-the secrets start to become more like lies. Eli knows no one will believe them, so she keeps it all a secret. Her mother arrives with a hazy story of where she's been all this time. When Eli discovers the Northern Lights will be visible for one night on the Cape, she hatches a plan to use the lights to contact her missing mother.
Years later, Eli is living with her dad on Cape Cod. Eli was there that night on the remote glacier in Svalbard, when her mother whistled, then vanished. Sixteen-year-old Eline Davis knows it's true because it happened to her mother. A novel that follows sixteen-year-old Eli as she tries to remember what truly happened the night her mother disappeared off a glacier in Norway under the Northern Lights.Īccording to Arctic legend, if you whistle at the Northern Lights, they'll swoop down and carry you off forever.
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