Ho-Yen, Polly
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) UK author whose early novels have been designed for Young Adult readers, beginning with Boy in the Tower (2014), which is mostly set in a high-rise in a desolate Near Future Dystopian London menaced by a Disaster of unknown origin: giant mobile plants that devour buildings. Where Monsters Lie (2016) replays some of the structure of its predecessor, but as fantasy; Fly Me Home (2017), again set in London, gifts its young protagonist with Magic powers. Ho-Yen is of sf interest primarily for Dark Lullaby (2021), an adult tale, again set in a Near Future Dystopian Britain oppressed by omnipresent surveillance, with specific focus on the Orwellian "Office of Standards in Parenting", which submits pregnant women to a crude Eugenics-based regime. [JC]
Polly Ho-Yen
born Northampton, East Midlands
works (selected)
- Boy in the Tower (London: Doubleday, 2014) [hb/]
- Where Monsters Lie (London: Corgi Books, 2016) [pb/]
- Fly Me Home (London: Corgi Books, 2017) [pb/]
- My Other Life (London: Bloomsbury, 2020) [chap: pb/]
- Dark Lullaby (London: Titan Books, 2021) [pb/]
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