Olivetti

Typewriters are like elephants. Unable to forget. The things that we are told, we hold within our steel frames. We keep them safe. We keep them in.

A heartfelt debut novel told from the unique vantage points of a witty typewriter and an introverted boy - for fans of Wishtree and A Rover’s Story.Being a typewriter is not as easy as it looks. Surrounded by books (notorious attention hogs) and recently replaced by a computer, Olivetti has been forgotten by the Brindle family - the humans he’s lived with for years. The Brindles are busy: Dad and Mum work constantly, three of their children put the extra in extra-curriculars, and Ernest, their shy twelve-year-old, goes off alone to read. When Olivetti learns Mum has mysteriously gone missing, he believes he can help find her. He breaks the only rule of his ‘kind’ and types back to Ernest, who must face what he and his family have been running from, The Everything That Happened. Only by working together will they find the parts of themselves they’ve lost.