THE OTHER VALLEY
RELEASED 18 APRIL 305 pages | Hardback/ebook Author Scott Alexander Howard Publisher Atlantic Books
★★★★★
There’s something comfortingly familiar about the set-up of Scott Alexander Howard’s debut novel. The plot basics – a young girl in an isolated community discovers unexpected things about herself and the world – sound like the stuff of YA cliché. But while this is certainly a coming of age novel, it offers an unusual twist on time travel, while also going deeper into its themes than most.