Four

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 January 2024 she was the youngest producer ever to win Producer of the Year in The Stage Awards. She is based in London. The Four is her debut novel.

‘Haunting and tragic, a tale revealing the ugliness of adolescence – and humanity’ Cecelia Ahern'A dark, stylish debut, it hooks you until the final denouement' Sunday Independent‘Poignant and tragic, visceral and cruel, it’s about the best and the worst of what makes us human’ Emma Flint'Dark academia fans rejoice: this should be on your to-be-read pile… At times bittersweet, at others extremely sad, this is a tragically beautiful tale that embraces everything that adolescence offers' Belfast Telegraph‘Very stylishly done and chilling too’ Georgina Moore‘The Four shakes up A Secret History with Mallory Towers to concoct a horrifically thrilling, emotionally gripping story of adolescent fear, pride, and loyalty’ Louisa Young'This dark, intense novel is hugely addictive' Fabulous 'Immersive academic noir set in a boarding school dominated by a toxic ruling cadre, with four teens striving for survival in the baroque horror of that claustrophobic world' Harriet Tyce‘The Four is a dark, thrilling and deeply atmospheric thriller. Impossible to put down!’ Lucy Clarke'One of the best debuts I've read in a long time' Caroline Corcoran'An enjoyable melodramatic romp' Gloss'A spellbinding story' Glamour