Description: The US home of author Matt Killeen and his debut YA novel Orphan Monster Spy.
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Orphan Monster Spy is a book born on a bus, but also deeply interwoven with my childhood.
I grew up in a decade obsessed with the Second World War. It seemed to dominate the books, comics, TV, playground games…everything. However, my mother’s best friend was German and after many sparkly, golden summers with her wonderful, warm and rabidly pacifist family, I found myself unable to swallow the idea that Germans were the war-mad, evil monsters depicted. Yet the more I learned of the Holocaust, the less sense any of this made, as I increasingly identified with its victims. I was an endlessly bullie