Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an internationally award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling novelist of more than a dozen books for children, young adults and adults. Kiran’s books include ***The Girl of Ink & Stars***, which was the winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017; ***The Mercies***, previously titled ***Vardø***, winner of a 2020 Betty Trask award, and **Leila and the Blue Fox** winner of the Wainwright Prize 2023. Her first YA novel, ***The Deathless Girls***, a reimagining of the origin stories of the so-called ‘brides of Dracula’, was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, and the Foyles Book of the Year 2019. Kiran lives in Oxford with her husband, the artist [Tom de Freston](https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL7662313A), their daughter, cats, and usually a litter of foster kittens. ([Source](https://kiranmillwoodhargrave.com/all-about-kiran/))