Delia Sherman.
Titles I've written about:
The Freedom Maze (2011):
While I loved it—and was hooked from the first page—The Freedom Maze isn't going to be for everyone. It's a quieter, slower-moving coming-of-age story than you'd expect from the plotline, and it's more about character development and the creation of a multi-layered, rich depiction of a time and place than about Big Action or Big Drama (not to say that there isn't any).
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