Sarah has played many roles - but now she faces her most challenging of all. Because there's only one way for a Jewish orphan spy to survive at a school for the Nazi elite. And that's to become a monster like them. They think she is just a little girl. But she is the weapon they never saw coming... with a mission to destroy them all.

 

This book was recognised by the The Whitbread Award, now called 'The Costa Book Awards'. These are a set of annual literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in Britain and Ireland. They were inaugurated for 1971 publications and known as the Whitbread Book Awards until 2006 when Costa Coffee, then a subsidiary of Whitbread, took over sponsorship.

There are 400 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .

Matt Killeen was born in Birmingham in the 1970s. After careers in advertising as a copywriter and in music and sports journalism, he completed a Masters Degree in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. In 2010, he became a writer for the LEGO (R) Company, leaving after eight years. Orphan Monster Spy is his first novel and was inspired, in part, by the young female SOE agents of WW2. He lives near London and now writes full-time.