Cathy Johnson
Cathy grew up a bookish third culture kid in a town in Borneo, experiencing terrorist threats and army curfews, and dodging bullets and jungle ambushes. She became a doctor, working for the RAF and Royal Navy, then a GP, before autoimmune illness sent her back to books. She’s since gained a Northern Writers Award and an MA in Writing For Young People. She lives with her Sri Lankan husband, a clingy cockapoo, and numerous red squirrels, in the Lake District village where she was once the single-handed GP.
Soldier Spy
Upper MG Historical. In 197AD Britannia, fourteen-year-old motherless half Celt, Taran, is desperate to earn his centurion father’s respect and become a soldier on Hadrian‘s Wall. When his father is posted overseas, Taran snitches on a Celtic uprising, hoping to join him. Instead, he is ordered to journey along the wall, spying on the tribes. When runaway best friend, Marcus, the Roman commander's son, is kidnapped, Taran is forced to turn double agent to save him. A road trip and buddy story, but most of all, a search for identity and home during a civil war. Boy, Everywhere meets Roman Mysteries, in the iconic World Heritage setting of The Eagle of the Ninth.