Review:
Reparation by Gaby Koppel and
God’s Children by Mabli Roberts
From Planet 235

Planet 235

Eluned Gramich reviews
Reparation
by Gaby Koppel and
God’s Children
by Mabli Roberts

by Gaby Koppel

Honno £8.99

History has always exerted a fascination on the minds of writers, with its untold stories, incredible characters, secrets and revelations coming together in a world that is both familiar and alien. Writing historical fiction is powerful, almost supernatural, since the writer brings to life people who have long been dead, along with the world they inhabited. This power is at work in two novels from Honno.

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About the author

Eluned Gramich is a writer and translator. Her most recent work is The Lion and the Star, a novella about the Welsh language protests in the 1970s, published as part of Orion Books’ Hometown Tales series.