Elsie's Messages

Hi guys, here are some songs to play alongside your reading of this book. Of course you don't have to do this, it makes no difference to the storyline. These songs are suited to the characters. Also, i included an introduction to the main character at the bottom, as well as her friends. I hope you like them.

song - Artist

1. Love me better - Love thy brother

2. On Hold - The XX

3. Back In My Body -Maggie Rogers

4. Tongue Tied - Group Love

5. On The Floor - Perfume Genious

6. Why am i like this? - Orla Gartland

7. 1957 -Milo Greene

8. Seventeen - Sharon Van Etten

9. I wanna come over - Melissa Etheridge

10. Tell Me - Johnny Jewel, Ft. Saoirse Ronan

11. Silver Morning - Brian Eno

1. Elsie-Jean "Eli" Dalton

We meet Elsie just after her eighteenth birthday. She returns to her small hometown of Fairfield, somewhere in the English countryside. She left when she was seventeen after an under-age drinking event ended in a tragic accident and loss to the whole community, that Elsie blamed on herself. Elsie was the once loud-mouthed party girl, who loved attention and being popular. She was the school "it"-girl. All of the girls wanted to dress like her, have their hair like her. They wanted to wear the same clothes and perfume that she did. She wore mint green nail polish in the summer and when they went back to school in September, all of the girls had min green polish too. However, the "accident" tears her down. It strips her of those attributes as her walls come crumbling down. Elsie realised the error of her ways and she and her family move to France for a fresh start. This book picks up at her return and we follow her as she tries to find her place in that town once again, however, all eyes are on her. The mysterious Eli who packed up and left the party girl and has returned a quiet, timid librarian? However this "new" Elsie, catches the attention of University hot-boy, Chase Winthrop. As well as English professor Dean Hepburn.

2. Margaux Olsen

We find Margaux at a point in her life when she's very much a loner. Since her best friend Elsie moved away a year ago, Margaux prefers to spend her time at the beach, drawing or at home, with her dogs. Margaux's mother is a Professor at Fairfield university and calls her daughter to let her know that Elsie has registered for classes, which brings Margaux out of her shell a little bit. She starts taking care of herself again, and she has this new excitement for life again, believing that things would go back to how they were in high school. They'd be partying and clubbing, except they're eighteen so can do it legally. Unfortunately, Margaux is let down as she meets the new Elsie. All of those feelings of betrayal and anger come rushing back, along with depression she was dealing with for being alone for so long. Margaux doesn't know how she'll be able to forgive Elsie, for ditching her and then denying her when she returns.

3. Chase Winthrop

Chase Winthrop is the good guy, he acts all tough and confident around his friends, but one afternoon in the library with Elsie, has him pining for the soft romantic things in life. Her beautiful blonde hair and gorgeous green eyes are in his mind all day and night until he finally finds the courage to ask for her neighbour. And she says no. Determined to see her again, Chase offers to lend her one of his favourite books and she accepts, only if he would borrow and read her favourite in return, and of course this makes him happy as he now has two excuses to see her again and she express some form of interest in him. However, Chase see's the way her professor interacts with her and how she looks at him. Could this be an obstacle?