Oldham, June
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) UK author of The Raven Waits (1979), a fantasy about Beowulf; and a Young Adult tale, Foundling (1995; vt Found 1996), set in a Near Future America where fears of Overpopulation have led to punitive controls over reproduction. The young protagonist, exiled to a countryside inhabited by Gothic figures of menace and occasional hope, establishes as expected a kind of family among her fellow rejects from a bad world. [JC]
June Oldham
born Lincolnshire
works
- The Raven Waits (New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1979) [hb/]
- Foundling (London: Hodder Childrens' Books, 1995) [hb/]
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