Sandra Newman

Sandra Newman is an American-British novelist whose ambitious, genre-defying fiction reimagines familiar stories and worlds. She has lived in New York and London and has written both literary fiction and non-fiction. The Country of Ice Cream Star is set in a post-apocalyptic America where a plague has killed everyone over the age of twenty, following a fifteen-year-old girl who leads her community in search of a cure. The novel was praised for its extraordinary invented language and its epic scope. Newman has also written Julia, a retelling of Orwell's 1984 from the perspective of Julia. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers daring, inventive literary fiction that reimagines worlds and stories with fresh vision and linguistic brilliance.