Mette Newth is the Norwegian author and illustrator of several books for young adults and children. Working on her own as well as in collaboration with her husband, British-born writer Philip Newth, she has produced popular and award-winning picture books. However, it is largely for her novels for older readers, three of which have been translated into English, that she is best known. In both The Abduction and The Transformation, Newth deals with the clash of cultures in Greenland, during the seventeenth century in the former title and in the fifteenth century in the latter. With The Dark Light Newth sets her story in a leper hospital in nineteenth-century Bergen, Norway, in a grippingly realistic tale. Each of these award-winning titles features a young female protagonist thrown into dramatic if not traumatic situations; each survives kidnap, rape, abandonment, or other physical dangers and tests her own opinions against...