We all like supporting YA and New Adult debut authors, but this year, rather than just read their books, I'll be highlighting them on my blog too, so you can hear about these wonderful authors.
Today I'm interviewing UKYA author, Sangu Mandanna, whose debut YA novel The Lost Girl is being published by Random House Children's Publishers in the UK on 3rd January 2013. Read on for more:
The Lost Girl by Sangu Mandanna - Eva’s life is not her own. She is a creation, an abomination – an echo. Made by the Weavers as a copy of someone else, she is expected to replace a girl named Amarra, her ‘other’, if she ever died. Eva studies what Amarra does, what she eats, what it’s like to kiss her boyfriend, Ray. So when Amarra is killed in a car crash, Eva should be ready.
But fifteen years of studying never prepared her for this.
Now she must abandon everything she’s ever known – the guardians who raised her, the boy she’s forbidden to love – to move to India and convince the world that Amarra is still alive... from Goodreads.
Continue reading 2013 YA UK Debut Interview: The Lost Girl by Sangu Mandanna
Today I'm interviewing UKYA author, Sangu Mandanna, whose debut YA novel The Lost Girl is being published by Random House Children's Publishers in the UK on 3rd January 2013. Read on for more:
The Lost Girl by Sangu Mandanna - Eva’s life is not her own. She is a creation, an abomination – an echo. Made by the Weavers as a copy of someone else, she is expected to replace a girl named Amarra, her ‘other’, if she ever died. Eva studies what Amarra does, what she eats, what it’s like to kiss her boyfriend, Ray. So when Amarra is killed in a car crash, Eva should be ready.But fifteen years of studying never prepared her for this.
Now she must abandon everything she’s ever known – the guardians who raised her, the boy she’s forbidden to love – to move to India and convince the world that Amarra is still alive... from Goodreads.
