Previous SFF Author: Kenneth Oppel
Katharine Orton was born in London and now lives in Bristol. Before she started writing from home while taking care of her young family, she worked at Barefoot Books (a children’s publisher in Bath), was a copywriter, and taught in a stained glass shop.
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Nevertell (2020), by Katharine Orton, is an engaging if somewhat limited Middle Grade book set in the wild north of Stalinist Russia and focused on a young girl trying to escape a brutal work camp and make her way south to Moscow and the grandmother she’s been told would be able to take her in.
Twelve-year-old Lina was born in the camp (her father is rumored to be the cruel commandant Zima) that her grandfather, mother, and uncle had been brought to years earlier.
Bill Capossere´s rating: 3.5 | Katharine Orton | Children, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Previous SFF Author: Kenneth Oppel
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