Kiran Millwood Hargrave Author & Editor

Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an award-winning poet, playwright, and novelist. Her bestselling works for children include The Girl of Ink & Stars, and have won numerous awards including the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the British Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year, and the Blackwell’s Children’s Book of the Year, and been shortlisted for prizes such as the Costa Children’s Book Award and the Blue Peter Best Story Award. The Mercies is her first novel for adults, and won a Betty Trask Award. Kiran lives by the river in Oxford, with her husband, artist Tom de Freston, and their rescue cat, Luna.