Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an accomplished poet, playwright, and novelist, celebrated for her award-winning children's and young adult books, as well as her debut novel for adults, The Mercies. Her celebrated works include bestsellers such as The Girl of Ink & Stars, winner of the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017; The Island at the End of Everything, shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards and Blue Peter Awards; and The Way Past Winter, Blackwell's Children's Book of the Year 2018. A Secret of Birds & Bone, her fourth middle-grade title, was published in 2020, while Julia and the Shark, in collaboration with her husband, artist Tom de Freston, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2021.
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\nHer first young adult novel, The Deathless Girls, was published in 2019 and was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize and longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. The Mercies, her debut novel for adults, became an instant success, debuting as The Times number 1 bestseller and reaching number 5 in the Sunday Times Bestseller Charts. The Mercies garnered rave reviews, with Emily Barton of The New York Times Book Review calling it 'among the best novels I've read in years,' and it went on to win a Betty Trask Award.
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\nMillwood Hargrave's children's books have received numerous accolades, including the 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, among others. The Mercies was met with critical acclaim, selected for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club and listed for the prestigious Prix Femina in France, hailed as 'unquestionably the book of the 2018 London Book Fair' by The Bookseller.
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\nKiran Millwood Hargrave resides in Oxford with her husband, Tom de Freston, and their rescue cat, Luna. She is represented by Hellie Ogden (UK) and Kirby Kim (US) at Janklow & Nesbit.