No amount of literary motley can save a bad premise, says Nina Allan Harper Voyager, HB £12.99 Noria Kaitio lives in a small village in the north of what has become known as the Scandinavian Union. Her story takes place several centuries in our future, at a time where global warming has melted the polar ice caps and the world’s political and environmental geography has been permanently and dramatically altered as a result. Fresh water is a precious commodity, and strictly rationed. Noria...
