5/21/2023 0 Comments Vanessa len never a hero![]() If Nicole was dead, all the howling in the world wouldn't bring her back. Penny, crying for attention Michael, overexcited, cursing at the moon Mummy, striking her chest with her fist, calling on God with all his known aliases, meantime her eyes probably drier than concrete. Shes a graduate of the Clarion Writers Workshop, and she lives in Melbourne, Australia. Shes read every Diana Wynne Jones book more times than she can count. ![]() A Punch and Judy puppet show in the simple dining room of their nondescript semi with double-glazed windows in the middle of a street one wouldn't remember in deepest, darkest South London. Vanessa Len writes YA fantasy about girl anti-heroes, monsters, and enemies who are maybe in love. What good would crying do anyway? She had simply watched Mummy, Penny, and Michael - what was left of the Roberts family in the UK after almost fifty years - carrying on for Jesus as if she'd announced Nicole was dead. That there had been no sign of her since, that Tonye thought it was possible she had drowned in the lagoon. ![]() ![]() Funny, Penny had been the first to cry when Claudine relayed the news about Nicole's disappearance, that she had gone on a boat trip in Lagos and hadn't come back. ![]()
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