SL Powell is the penname of Oxford author Sarah Loving, who lived on a boat before moving to her current home in Rose Hill. She combines writing with a part-time job as an administrator for a homeless charity. Her first novel for young adults, Fifty Fifty, which deals with the tricky issue of animal rights, is published by Piccadilly Press at £6.99.
Its young hero Gil is fed up with his scientist father, and when he meets animal activist Jude, he sees a chance to get his own back. But Gil soon discovers that things are not as black and white as Jude makes out.
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