Staff Picks: Londonia by Kate A. Hardy

December 4, 2020December 3, 2020 locusmag 0 Comments

It’s Locus’s 2020 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks!

Paula Guran chooses Londonia by Kate A. Hardy as a top novel of the year. “The plot flowing through this rich world and animating the characters living in it is an intelligent commentary on current society and where we may well be headed, but it is also a traditional, if updated, story – and, consequently, a real page-turner.”

You can read her full review online or in the May 2020 issue of Locus.

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