![]() ![]() Hardinge has always been interested in splits and doubles in how a character, apparently good, can be only a sliver away from being bad in how perceptions and opinions shift according to perspective and situation. Her darkly splendid new book is a worthy follow-up to The Lie Tree, set just before the start of the English civil war. What is more, she combines a subtle, intellectual approach with plots that swoop and soar. Hardinge is at the forefront of children’s fiction, with a rich, unusual taste for language, an eye for the striking and apt image and stories that reveal a staunch defence of the weak and the oppressed. F rances Hardinge’s last novel, The Lie Tree, won the overall Costa book award in 2015 the only other children’s book to have done so is Philip Pullman’s The Amber Spyglass, in 2001. ![]()
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