On my radar: Frances Hardinge’s cultural highlights
by Frances Hardinge from on (#1GXSJ)
The award-winning children's author on partying with dryads and goblins, Victorian crime and watching the transit of Mercury
Born in Brighton in 1973, children's author Frances Hardinge grew up in an isolated house in the village of Penshurst, Kent, where her parents worked in book-selling. She studied English at Oxford University, where she founded a writers' workshop, and afterwards won a short story competition. She wrote her first novel, Fly By Night, while working as a technical author for a software company; it was published in 2005 and won the Branford Boase award. Her seventh novel, The Lie Tree, about a 14-year-old girl who attempts to uncover the truth behind her father's mysterious death, won the 2015 Costa Book award, the first children's book to do so since Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass in 2001.
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