Ellie and the harpmaker (by Hazel Prior)

(Amazon UK link) I met Hazel Prior briefly, over ten years ago, at an annuel writing conference which we were both attending for the first time. I haven't been back, and my writing has mainly been limited to blogging in the past decade. But she has published several novels. When I saw some of them available inexpensively for the Kindle, I bought them, and decided to read one of them on recent travels.
I had thought, based on the cover, that ‘Ellie and the Harpmaker’ would be a children’s book. But...