Kiran Millwood Hargrave is a British author, poet, and playwright.
Her debut book, The Girl of Ink & Stars, won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, and British Children's Book of the Year.
Her second book, The Island at the End of Everything, received starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, and VOYA. She holds degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and lives by the river in Oxford.
The Mercies is her debut novel for adults.
At the Guardian Hargrave tagged seven favorite books about islands, including:
In Michael Crummey’s Galore, we meet the 19th-century inhabitants of a remote, small coastal town on Newfoundland, wrestling with all the best ingredients for a superstition-led saga spanning two centuries: a beached whale, a man birthed from its belly, and a wise woman determined to protect him.Learn about the other entries on the list.
Also see: ive top mystery novels set on islands; five top books about fantastical islands; top ten islands in children's fiction.
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