Kiran Milwood Hargrave

Winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017

An author, playwright and poet, Kiran Millwood Hargrave is best known for her award-winning children’s fiction. Waterstones booksellers have been passionate advocates of her work since they chose her bestselling debut, The Girl of Ink of Stars as the winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2017. Since then she has published the standalone novels The Island at the End of Everything and The Way Past Winter. Her first novel for adults, The Mercies, is due for publication in 2020.