The Orphan's Gift

Renita D’Silva loves stories, both reading and creating them. Her short stories have been published in ‘The View from Here’, ‘Bartleby Snopes’, ‘this zine’, ‘Platinum Page’, ‘Paragraph Planet’ among others and have been nominated for the ‘Pushcart’ prize and the ‘Best of the Net’ anthology. She is the author of ‘Monsoon Memories’, ‘The Forgotten Daughter’, ‘The Stolen Girl’, ‘A Sister’s Promise’, ‘A Mother’s Secret’, ‘A Daughter’s Courage’, ‘Beneath An Indian Sky’.

Born in Yorkshire, England, Kristin Atherton is an award-winning audiobook narrator and LAMDA-trained stage and screen actress with over 16 years of experience. Kristin’s acting credits include K-Shop, National Theatre Live: The Hard Problem, Waterloo Road and video game Elite Dangerous. She has narrated more than 20 audiobooks in many genres, including Dreda Say Mitchell’s Spare Room, Faking Friends by Jane Fallon and The Children of Jocasta by Natalie Haynes.