ELLIE

THE ROMANTIC SAGA WRITER OF THIS CENTURY

Ellie is the story of two young talented dancers. Of powerful friendship, sacrifice and ambition.

Ellie and Bonny are both evacuated from London at the onset of World War Two. The war for courageous Ellie is heartbreak, danger and suffering, a living nightmare which teaches her endurance.

For spoiled, self centred Bonny, war brings opportunity, a tantalising glimpse of a stylish and comfortable way of living.

The girls come together in a variety show at the end of the war and although vastly different, they share the same deep need for a true friend and a fierce ambition to become Hollywood stars. But disaster tosses them from the stage in London's West End, to seedy provincial revues. Ellie finds herself jilted and pregnant, just as she is on the threshold of fame and fortune. Bonny entraps a rich man into marriage by pretending to be carrying his child.

Both desperate and somewhat naive together they plan the biggest deceit of their lives, a plot which seems so beneficial to everyone, they overlook the moral question, and indeed the future repercussions.

Laced with an unforgettable cast, Ellie is set in a rich tapestry of wartime deprivation, glittering showgirls, idyllic country villages and bomb ravaged London.