![]() ![]() Blythe Hollowell is only 16 when she’s kidnapped and taken to live in an abandoned missile silo by Dobbs. Her latest novel, "Above," published in 2014, has been selected as an IndieNext pick, a Best Buzz Book, and Publishers Weekly Best New Book. Morley (Come Sunday) scores with an audacious page-turner. ![]() Her novel Above was an IndieNext pick, a Best Buzz Book, and a Publishers. During the countrys State of Emergency, she graduated from Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth with a degree in English Literature. It was longlisted for The Sunday Times award. Isla Morley grew up in South Africa during apartheid, the child of a British father and fourth-generation South African mother. "Come Sunday," her debut novel, was awarded the Janet Heidinger Prize for Fiction in 2009, was a finalist for the Commonwealth Prize, as well as the AudieBook Award. Now in the Los Angeles area, she shares a home with her husband, daughter, a cat, two dogs and four tortoises. She has lived in some of the most culturally diverse places of the world, including Johannesburg, London and Honolulu. For more than a decade she pursued a career in non-profit work, focusing on the needs of women and children. By 1994 she was one of the youngest magazine editors in South Africa, but left career, country and kin when she married an American and moved to California. During the country's State of Emergency, she graduated from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth with a degree in English Literature. Isla Morley grew up in South Africa during apartheid, the child of a British father and fourth-generation South African mother. ![]()
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