Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Kiran Millwood Hargrave is the Sunday Times-bestselling author of nine novels for children and adults, including the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year The Girl of Ink and Stars, Betty Trask Award-winning The Mercies, and most recently Florence Welch's Between Two Books book club pick, The Dance Tree. Her work has been optioned for film and TV and won or been long- or shortlisted for major prizes such as the Costa Awards, Waterstones Book of the Year, the Jhalak Prize, and the Carnegie. She lives in Oxford with her husband and two cats.