Cuckoo Song (48 page)
Authors: Frances Hardinge
Tags: #Juvenile Fiction, #Horror & Ghost Stories, #General
‘One of our finest children’s writers’
Nicolette Jones
Frances Hardinge’s first book,
Fly By Night
, won the Branford Boase Award for outstanding debut novel.
Fly By Night
was also, along with many of
her following books, shortlisted for several other awards, including the Guardian Fiction Prize. All her books are now published in many languages around the world.
Frances spent her childhood in a huge, isolated old house on a hilltop in Kent that ‘wuthered’ when the wind blew and inspired her to write strange, magical stories from an early
age. Now she lives in Oxford and London with her boyfriend.
Also by Frances Hardinge
Fly By Night
‘Remarkable and captivating, masterfully written and with a wealth of unexpected ideas . . . Full of marvels’
Sunday Times
Verdigris Deep
‘Hardinge writes with energy and verve’
The Times
Gullstruck Island
‘Hardinge is a hugely talented writer of tireless invention and prose’
Guardian
Twilight Robbery
‘
Twilight Robbery
has everything: fabulous characters . . . richly evocative world-building and writing so viscerally good you want to wrap yourself up in
it’
Sunday Telegraph
A Face Like Glass
‘Sophisticated, multi-layered and elegantly written’
Booktrust
First published 2014 by Macmillan Children’s Books
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ISBN 978-0-230-76636-5
Copyright © Frances Hardinge 2014
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