Kiran lives in Oxford with her husband and their cats, Luna and Marly. She is represented by Hellie Ogden (UK) and Kirby Kim (US) at Janklow & Nesbit. Writing for the New York Times Book Review, Emily Barton called it 'among the best novels I've read in years', and it won a Betty Trask Award. Her first book for adults, The Mercies, debuted as The Times number 1 bestseller, and at number 5 in the Sunday Times Bestseller Charts. Kiran Millwood Hargrave has masterfully built up an incredible claustrophobic atmosphere, shot through with delicate intimacy.

Her debut YA novel The Deathless Girls was published in 2019, and was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, and long listed for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Millwood Hargrave is a whirlwind, storm-building talent- Daisy Johnson, Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of Everything Under The Mercies took my breath away. Julia and the Shark, in collaboration with her husband, artist Tom de Freston, was Indie Book of the Month, Scottish Booktrust Book of the Month, and has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2021. A Secret of Birds & Bone, her fourth middle grade title, was published in 2020. Her books include the bestselling winner of the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017 The Girl of Ink & Stars, and Costa Book Awards- and Blue Peter Awards-shortlisted The Island at the End of Everything, and The Way Past Winter, Blackwell's Children's Book of the Year 2018. Her debut YA novel The Deathless Girls was publi Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an award winning poet, playwright, and novelist.

Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an award winning poet, playwright, and novelist.

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