![]() ![]() ![]() Gullstruck Island (2009), featuring thirteen year old Arilou who has the power to detach her senses from her body, was chosen as one of Time magazine’s ‘100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time’.Ĭuckoo Song (2014), a fast paced fantasy set in a parallel 1923 in which antagonistic sisters have to enter the dangerous realm of the Underbelly to rescue family members, was shortlisted for the 2015 CILIP Carnegie Medal.Īt the 2015 Costa Book of the Year Awards she won the children’s book of the year award as well the overall prize for her novel The Lie Tree. Its more comical sequel, Twilight Robbery (2011), again with lead characters teenage runaway Mosca Mye and charlatan poet Eponymous Clent, was shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. Her first fantasy novel for children, Fly By Night (2005), set in an alternative 17 th century, won the Branford Boase Award for outstanding debut novel. ![]() She read English at Oxford then worked as a technical author for a computer software company. She enjoyed a bookish childhood in an isolated old house on a hilltop in the country. ![]()
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