Since the publication of her debut novel, The Girl of Ink & Stars, in 2016, Kiran Millwood Hargrave has proven herself to be one of the most exciting voices in children's fiction. Her books for children and young adults include The Island at the End of Everything, The Way Past Winter and The Deathless Girls. Her debut novel for adults, The Mercies, was a number one Sunday Times bestseller and chosen for the Radio 2 Book Club.
Between them, her children's books have won numerous awards including Children's Book of the Year at the British Book Awards, the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Historical Association Young Quills Award, and the Blackwell's Children's Book of the Year. They have been shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize, the Little Rebels Prize, the Branford Boase Award, the Blue Peter Best Story Award, Costa Children's Book Prize, and Foyles' Children's Book of the Year, amongst others.
Kiran lives in Oxford with her husband, the artist Tom de Freston, and their rescue cat, Luna.
Between them, her children's books have won numerous awards including Children's Book of the Year at the British Book Awards, the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Historical Association Young Quills Award, and the Blackwell's Children's Book of the Year. They have been shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize, the Little Rebels Prize, the Branford Boase Award, the Blue Peter Best Story Award, Costa Children's Book Prize, and Foyles' Children's Book of the Year, amongst others.
Kiran lives in Oxford with her husband, the artist Tom de Freston, and their rescue cat, Luna.
