![]() Sunny thought she knew most of the stories surrounding the cult duo, but as her interviews dig deeper, a nasty new allegation from an unexpected source threatens everything. Sunny Shelton seizes the chance to curate an oral history about her idols. ![]() But when violence breaks out at one of their concerts, Opal’s bold protest sets off a chain of events that changes their lives forever.ĭecades later, as Opal considers a reunion with Nev, music journalist S. In early seventies New York City, Opal and Nev are on the cusp of stardom. When the British singer/songwriter Neville Charles discovers her one night, she takes him up on his offer to make rock music together. Opal is a fiercely independent young woman who knows she can be a star a Black punk artist before her time. Dawnie Walton’s debut novel The Final Revival of Opal & Nev, (37 Ink/Simon & Schuster, available now) is a howl of a book. ![]() A night that will define their story for ever. DAWNIE WALTON is a writer, editor, and author of the novel The Final Revival of Opal & Nev, winner of the Aspen Words Literary Prize, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and named one of the best books of 2021 by The Washington Post, NPR, Esquire, and former U.S. ![]() ![]() warm and wonderful’ KILEY REIDĪ queen of punk before her time. ‘Everything I could wish for in a book’ 5* READER REVIEW ![]()
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