The Book
The Boy From Elsewhere by Kestral Gaian
Synopsis:
ONE TOWN. TWO WORLDS. NO WAY HOME.
A boy washes up on the beach of a quiet seaside town, soaked, shaken, and wearing nothing but pyjamas. He insists he’s from here, but the whole place feels... not quite right.
Then he meets David, a stranger who offers to help. What begins as an act of kindness quickly becomes something more. Questions multiply. And a chain of events set in motion centuries ago starts to tighten its grip on the present.
Drawn into an underground web of secret histories and dangerous obsession, David gathers an unlikely band of allies to uncover the truth and get their new friend back elsewhere. But some doors were never meant to open, and when they do, reality itself begins to unravel.
The Boy From Elsewhere is a gripping story of parallel worlds, found family, and the terrifying courage it takes to hold on to the people you love when the universe itself is trying to pull you apart.
- A queer coming-of-age mystery with emotional depth
- The first book in the Reality Quake series, The Boy From Elsewhere blends speculative intrigue with warmth, centring friendship, trust, and found family.
- Ideal for YA and LGBTQ+ readers seeking affirming representation who love character-led stories that blend mystery, emotional depth, and hope.
- Perfect for fans of Heartstopper by Alice Oseman, The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness and A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll.
About the Author
Author. Playwright. Poet.
Kestral Gaian tells stories that bend time, break rules, and reach beneath the surface. Working across fiction, theatre, poetry, and hard-to-label forms, they are drawn to edges and cracks where something unexpected begins to grow. Their work spans YA novels, essays, plays, audio dramas, and poetry, exploring grief, memory, hidden systems, and the quiet persistence of outsiders.
Growing up on a council estate with little money and fewer mirrors in books, Kestral turned to storytelling as both survival and transformation. As a queer writer, they continue to create work that feels mythic yet deeply personal, infused with clarity, tenderness, and a refusal to flatten life’s contradictions. Kestral recently moved from London to the coast of Scotland.
The Boy From Elsewhere by Author Kestral Gaian is out now EB (£9.49) PB (£12.99) ISBN: (EB) 9781915893116 (PB) 9781915893116 Publishedby Reconnecting Rainbows Press
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