Kiran Millwood Hargrave FRSL **UPDATES ONLY**
@Kiran_MH
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**UPDATES ONLY** Bestselling author of The Girl of Ink & Stars, The Mercies, Julia & the Shark, The Dance Tree, Leila & the Blue Fox, The Geomancer Trilogy ✨
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I WAS NOT READY 😭😭😭 In the Shadow of the Wolf Queen is here, and I could eat it with a spoon (but it would eat me first, with fangs) - out 31/8/23!!
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Working as a bra fitter in my late teens, we had a few trans customers (that we knew of, probs more) come for fittings and ofc they never, ever made myself (alone in a cubicle w/them) or anyone around them uncomfortable. This is manufactured panic so don't
#boycottMarksandSpencer
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My point being, trans people have been using their correct changing rooms and services for years. There is not a 'sudden explosion' of trans people using their appropriate spaces. We're just being told to panic about it by a small, vocal minority driven by fear and ignorance.
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Just had a v British attempted mugging experience where I felt someone unzip the front of my rucksack and turned around to find him holding a tampon and we just looked at each other and I apologised and he gave it back and on I went.
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Our daughter arrived on Sunday in the water birth I’d always dreamt of. The love we feel is immeasurable - not only for her but for the babies we lost, & for everyone around us. She’s a rainbow & a prism for light. Vanishing back into newborn heaven now 🌞🌈
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I’m experiencing our sixth miscarriage. Incredible how much hurt & hope a heart can hold.
#JuliaAndTheShark
is dedicated to our twins because we wanted you to know they existed & are loved. The same is true of all our losses. If you too know this pain & love, I see you. Now 🍸
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My mum got us a deep clean as a baby shower present & I’m so in love with our house - equally can’t wait for it to be filled with baby toys & nappies & sick & the stuff of life ✨
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TW pregnancy
It’s getting harder to keep this under wraps, so while we are on tour for our latest collaboration (
#LeilaAndTheBlueFox
available at all good bookshops from next Thursday btw), we thought it was time to share our next collaboration, coming early 2023 😂💗
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
- Ursula K Le Guin, whose words I love anew each time I read them
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Just opened my latest royalty report to discover
#TheGirlOfInkAndStars
has sold over 250,000 copies in the UK.
What an amazing milestone for this story, rejected by twenty publishers, which has been in the world five years next month.
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It’s here. Spent half an hour just holding it. So stupid to cry over, but I am. This story was all consuming - writing it was like a fever I had to survive. But I did, & it’s real, it’s here, & it is so, so beautiful.
#TheMercies
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Like others have said, transphobia is not a matter of opinion. It's prejudice, plain & simple. To blame 0.2% of the population as the reason for underfunded refuges and assaults on women over systematic sexism & our government is not only non-sensical, it's actively harmful.
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ONE WEEK UNTIL
#TheDeathlessGirls
publishes, & my author copies have arrived! Who fancies a
#giveaway
? Three hardback, signed, first edition copies available, RT & follow by 6pm 18/9 to enter, UK only (sorry) 🧛🏽♀️🥀🧛🏽♀️
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Pinch me. So grateful to everyone who has made these intense, beautiful four years of being an author possible.
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Here are some amazing books forthcoming in 2023 I've had the pleasure of reading, wholeheartedly recommend, and think you should preorder from a bookshop of your choice. All killer no filler 🧵
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First Jack Monroe highlighted how disgusting, sexist, fattist, racist etc etc D*vid W*lli*ms’ books are.
Then several women (then underage girls) have provided evidence of inappropriate behaviour. There is far worse on the grapevine that comes first or secondhand.
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This
#WorldMentalHealthDay
is the 1st in 11 years I’m healthy. Thought it would never happen, that depression was my state of being. Last yr, just after 1st pic, I decided it was too painful to be alive. Thankful every day I’m here to see how wrong I was. It gets better. Promise.
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29/4/17 - Reader, I married him.
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Here it is!
#JuliaAndTheShark
, my new middle grade novel in collaboration with my husband, Tom de Freston. It’s about a mother, a daughter, a light in the darkness - & a Greenland Shark. Designed by Alison Padley, it publishes 2nd Sept in deluxe hardback edition
@HachetteKids
📚
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Fight is not a useful word to me. I don't have the energy to fight, always. Sometimes I sit with it. I sleep more, eat more fruit, walk, make myself shower, & make my bed. I wait. I talk about it. It's alright not to fight, always. It's enough to live.
#HowIFightDepression
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#TheDanceTree
, coming 12th May. A story about longing, hysteria, and forbidden love.
Set in an era of superstition, & inspired by the true events of the largest & most deadly dancing plague ever recorded, this book broke & built my heart:
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Number. One. In.
@thetimes
. This is based on the
@waterstones
figures alone, so I guess today I’m off to start my mission to hug all their booksellers, like a demented Santa Claus. Just as soon as Luna lets me get up. 😭😭😭
#TheMercies
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It’s
#TheDeathlessGirls
publication day! This book is a celebration of the bonds between family - chosen and otherwise. It’s also about first love, how people become monsters, and choosing your own fate. I hope it finds its readers 🧛🏽♀️🏳️🌈❤️🥀
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Seen a couple of tweets saying that colour shouldn't be mentioned AT ALL so readers can imagine characters how they want. Nice idea, but the literary equivalent of saying 'I don't see race'. White is the default in our society, and so we HAVE to be explicit.
#ReflectingRealities
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TW miscarriage: Feel a fraud using
#NationalGriefAwarenessWeek
hashtag, which is part of the problem. 5 months ago today, I discovered I’d had a missed miscarriage of our twins. Seeing their heartbeats was the best moment of my life. Seeing their tiny bodies still was the worst.
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Me a year ago, about to go into life saving surgery to remove an ectopic pregnancy. Me today, skin singing with cold after a sea swim, so very grateful to be alive. Grateful 🌊
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This is the last photo I can find of me before the night I walked home alone at night & was assaulted. I was 19. I blamed myself for a long time. But I was just trying to get home. My heart is with Sarah’s family tonight, always. With every woman just trying to walk home.
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Three years married to my best friend 🌷what a joy it is.
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Today would’ve been the twins’ first birthday, had they been on time, & by a beautiful stroke of serendipity, it’s Marly’s first birthday too. From this lovely coincidence to nursing me through an ectopic, she came along at just the right time, & saved us in so many ways 🐾 ❤️
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I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS AND HAVE HAD TO HAVE A LITTLE SIT DOWN. Absolutely thrilled, shocked, and overwhelmed that
#TheDeathlessGirls
has been shortlisted in the
@Foyles
Children's & YA Books of the Year. LOOK at this marvellous list. I cannot, cannot believe it. So happy.
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🚨📢 SOME NEWS 📢🚨
I’ve been dreaming this world into being for half a decade, & next year I finally get to share the first instalment of THE GEOMANCER TRILOGY…
In The Shadow of the Wolf Queen 🐺
In the lakes, the wolf queen sharpens her spear...
From bestselling, award-winning author
@Kiran_MH
comes an epic, bewitching new fantasy series about the magic of nature, the lure of power and the strength of love. Pre-order our Exclusive Edition here:
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TW: sexual assault
A letter I thought was to him, but is actually for me.
@RapeCrisisEandW
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Overwhelmed that the
@Waterstones
signed, stencilled edge edition of
#TheMercies
is sold out online (though do check your local store in case!)
To celebrate, I'm giving away THREE of these special editions, which I will also dedicate. RT by 6pm today to enter, UK only.
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That £649 day workshop is disgusting exploitation. Buy
@Writers_Artists
yearbook (there’s a version for kids writers too), ask writers questions on Twitter (hi!) - this is what I did. In fact, I’ll buy 5 people a copy-DM me. & any questions about getting published? Ask me!
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Home 💗
I’m disappearing for a while to hit some deadlines & focus on therapy & recovery. Thank you so much for all your kind words & support. Sharing here was not an easy decision & I’m so glad I did.
Take care x
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Guys. GUYS!!!
#TheMercies
is number 5 on the Sunday Times bestseller list. NUMBER FIVE. On part week sales!! I am just...I can’t. I’m so happy & I can’t even describe how grateful & awed I am. Thank you
@picadorbooks
& all the readers & booksellers. NUMBER FIVE 😭
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Maternity leave is going pretty great thanks ☺️ but I have some exciting book news coming next week ✨
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One of the highlights of my career too, to meet Darcy 💗
One of the best moments of my career so far has been seeing a pupil meet her favourite author today. Darcy couldn’t wait to meet
@Kiran_MH
& has read all her books. Don’t worry- they’re tears of joy! 🥲📚 Thank you
@hayfestival
@firstcampus
@Main_MACS
@LowerMacs
#ScribblersTour
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Launch day for
#TheDanceTree
. I’ve never had a story change under my fingertips the way this one did. It was a slippery, terrifying, determined beast of a book. I lost six pregnancies while writing it, & it’s impossible not to be transformed by that sort of grief - forged, maybe.
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ARGHHHHHH!!!
In many ways,
#JuliaAndTheShark
was created in the dark - of a pandemic, of pregnancy loss - & to see it brought into the light like this is extraordinary. Thank you
@hachettekids
@Waterstones
& all who sail in you. & thank you TdF, my constant light
#BookOfTheYear
The Waterstones
#BookOfTheYear
shortlist is finally here and we are absolutely delighted to reveal the final thirteen after such a brilliant year for books... Who has your vote?
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I was going to wait until
@TomdeFreston
(ie someone who can take a photo) got here BUT I CAN’T WAIT. Feast your eyes on
#TheDeathlessGirls
, illus
#OlgaBaumert
, designed by Alison
@HachetteKids
. Out sept 19th. DED.
#Bellatrix
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Being on the
@waterstones
Book of the Year shortlist was an enormous surprise & delight. That booksellers’ support means they created this prize for
#JuliaAndTheShark
is beyond-wildest-dreams stuff. I’m utterly, utterly overwhelmed
#ChildrensGiftOfTheYear
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SHE’S HERE. Can’t believe how beautiful this proof is - yet the hardback will be even more special.
#JuliaAndTheShark
is about wonder & how it rubs against the mundane til the edges fray & merge. It’s about mothers & daughters & friends made on islands during summer holidays.
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I got news! So excited to be working with
@helenst_
& the amazing team at
@HachetteKids
- & can’t wait to be able to tell you more about these projects, especially the one with my beloved
@TomdeFreston
✍️ 📚 📖
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There she is 💗 my selkie, by Emily Ingman at Tattooed Hare.
We settled on a selkie because I identify with them - their longing for water, their association with mental health, their softness. There might be a story brewing. I’ll see her whenever I’m in a swimsuit. I’m in love.
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Five years ago today, my debut
#TheGirlofInkAndStars
came out & I had NO expectation or idea of the places it would take me. 7 books & over 30 languages later, I could not be more grateful to the people who bring my stories into the world, & the readers who keep them there.
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Becki’s thread got taken down because she signed an NDA. They know what W*lli*ms did was wrong, so they made her sign an NDA. That’s evidence in itself. She’s muzzled but we aren’t. If you aren’t furious, you should be. Enough of powerful men preying on & silencing young women.
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8 month pregnant Christmas brought to you by Gaviscon ✨ hope you have a lovely day, or whatever you need it to be
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A proper 'pinch me' moment, seeing this photo of all my MG books on a table together. These stories have helped me rewrite my own into a life I never thought to dream of 💫 thank you to all the booksellers supporting my work, especially @/racklereads for this table & photo.
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So grateful to
@ELLEUK
for this series on fertility & miscarriage, & to Katie O’Malley for commissioning this piece on my experience of hyper fertility. I had never heard of the condition before two years ago, & I hope it reaches the people who need it:
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@samatlounge
My last royalty statement from one of my publishers was almost exactly £30k (£29,162) & the (paperback) book sold 45,655 copies in that period. It will hugely vary obvs depending on royalty rate, sold price etc. but that’s data straight from my inbox.
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So excited to write more stories for
@picadorbooks
- next up is a colonial horror story, & an intergenerational saga. Wouldn’t dare to push myself this much without Sophie Jonathan, the Picador team &
@HellieOgden
’s guidance and support ✨
"Kiran is an author who is going from strength to strength, and with The White Room and The Spite Fence, I can’t wait to see her readership grow even more",
@picadorbooks
takes two new titles from
@Kiran_MH
! Find out more here:
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A thing of extraordinary beauty. Designed by Alison Padley, illustrated by Tom de Freston, written by me & published by
@HachetteKids
in September 💙🧊🦊
#LeilaAndTheBlueFox
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I commissioned a desk from Dingly Dell Creative & I am obsessed. Cannot wait to write book number 10 & onwards on this work of art 🪷 see her store on & her Instagram
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The thing that always gets me about any powerful man abusing that power is that SOMEONE KNOWS. Often a whole team of people. People in publishing. His PA. His production company. People must know & yet it’s left to the victim to speak up & speak alone. It’s heartbreaking.
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Completely over the moon to share this news ✨
Books by
@Kiran_MH
and Benjamin Myers are to feature on the "Between The Covers", which returns to BBC for a fifth series in November.
Read more here:
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With 6 weeks to go until
#LeilaAndTheBlueFox
walks onto shelves, we have 6 proof copies to give away! 3 here, 3 on insta: .
To enter, reply & tag a friend. The winners will be chosen at random, closes Sunday midnight. T&Cs:
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Our baby turned two months old on Wednesday, my 33rd birthday. I’ve felt lucky since the moment she was born, but seeing her so sick this week has made me all the more grateful for what I have 💗
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Aaaand breathe. Second draft of second novel for adults is DONE 💀
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THIS IS NOT A WITCH HUNT. A witch hunt is what happens to the victims, not the perpetrators! Enough With The Witch Hunt Talk!
Speak up. Parents, readers, authors, publishers, retailers. What are you waiting for? Speak up.
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Three years since we married on a beach in Goa, me in my mum’s wedding sari 💓 I miss my family so much.
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Completely thrilled that my first book for grown ups will be published by
@picadorbooks
in early 2020! So excited to be working with
@SophieHJonathan
& the incredible team. SO HAPPY 💃🏻
.
@picadorbooks
has won a “hotly contested” 13-publisher auction for award-winning children’s author
@Kiran_MH
's first adult novel:
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Okay this looks ridiculous amongst my undecorated study, & is probably the most self indulgent thing I’ve ever done, but sometimes you need to remind yourself how far you’ve come and what you’re capable of. Especially excited by the gaps, all the books yet to be written…
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Our kitchen renovation finished in time for Christmas! God bless our wonderful builders 💗 here’s before and after
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Ok I’ve locked down because I’m once again asking for anyone who can talk about Walliams on or off the record to contact me via DM - big progress on this again, with a major media outlet. I can put you in touch directly or act as a proxy. Let’s go whisper networks ✨
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Overwhelmed by the love and kindness I’ve been shown on this, the strangest of launch days. Thank you 💕 cheers 🥂
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30. Not the day I’d planned, but I’m so grateful for the people I know & all I have (including this
@TessaMetcalfe
ring from TdF 💓). Couldn’t have imagined better For myself a decade ago.
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Today is
#TheWayPastWinter
’s official birthday - like the queen, she has had several. It’s about sisterhood & letting go, growing up & growing your world - & trees. I hope you fall as much in love with reading Sanna, Mila, & Pipa’s story, as I did while writing it.
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Absolutely mindblown by this 🤯 thank you to every reader who has picked up one of my stories, and to
@HellieOgden
who began it all. And thank you to
@chickenhsebooks
- the one ‘yes’ in a sea of rejections eight years ago, and look what we did!
We are THRILLED to announce that
@Kiran_MH
has reached the magical milestone of over 500,000 copies sold of all her Chicken House books in the UK - yippee!
Join thousands of readers worldwide and discover the magical world of Kiran Millwood Hargrave✨:
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Can highly recommend Morocco for a babymoon, pregnant people (& their partners) get to skip queues everywhere & you get free mint tea & walnut stuffed dates & traffic will literally stop when the lights are still green to let you cross 10/10 no notes (cat situation is sad tho)
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Hugs to anyone who is being especially triggered by the language surrounding Sarah Everard's disappearance. I'll never forget the questions that followed my assault, which took place on a walk home alone at night. It was not my fault. It is never our fault. Hold tight to that.
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For anyone asking how to get your paws on a signed copy of
#TheDeathlessGirls
-
how about signed PLUS CRIMSON SPRAYED EDGES? You can now preorder this very special limited edition from
@Waterstones
right here:
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Misty Oxford river morning, turning to blue
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Trans pals - you really don’t need to read the statement. As a fellow survivor of male violence, the central argument simply doesn’t hold on any level, & I’m sorry people won’t just let you live. Sending hugs.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
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I’m posting more selfies than normal, as a sort of I WOZ HERE. I’ve felt so *not* here the past few months, so uncertain & uncomfortable in my brain & my body, & to come to such a beautiful place, to be by & in the sea, feels an enormous gift. I was here, I still am. I’m glad.
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When we went out with
#JuliaAndTheShark
, some publishers told us that it was ‘too quiet’, that contemporary from me wasn’t ‘on brand’, that it was a ‘sweet little book’ but wouldn’t ‘do anything’, that T’s art ‘wouldn’t work’. It’s sold 13,550 copies in three months (1/2)
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IT’S HERE IT’S HERE IT’S HERE (here it is)
#TheMercies
An intoxicating story of suspicion, witch hunts and a terrifying storm,
@Kiran_MH
's debut adult novel promises to be just as mesmerising as her children's fiction, complete with a stunning cover design. Arriving February 2020. Pre-order here:
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I knew announcing
#TheDanceTree
would bring an enormous rush of emotion. Relief, fear, joy. Every book does that, but this also holds such...sadness? Not quite. But it's about wanting motherhood. Also a dance plague, forbidden love, a pagan church in a tree. But a woman, longing.
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Thank you for your kindness. This morning we let our kitten out in the garden for the first time & picked apples for pie 🥧 a gentle day of letting go.
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The final
#ASecretOfBirdsAndBone
celebration of the week, this time with my parents. An Italian meal at home, Strictly highlights on the TV, & getting all dressed up with nowhere to go 💃🏻
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‘“The Mercies” is among the best novels I’ve read in years. In addition to its beautiful writing, its subject matter is both enduring and timely.’
Pinching myself at this review in the
@nytimes
. THE NEW YORK TIMES. I need to lie down.
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31 today, & I was planning to spend it in our garden in Oxford with five of my favourite people, meeting a beautiful new baby. But instead, I’m recovering from emergency surgery at my parents’ house.
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A new year’s gift from T. I’ve been putting out books I’ve read/got multiples of for neighbours since we moved, & running outside to rescue the box every time it rained. So T ordered me this, & painted it to match our windows. Our own little library 📚
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@john_boyne
No serious writer would use a Zelda recipe in their book. No serious writer would think their work would suffer from MORE knowledge, MORE input. No serious writer would care less about harm than ego. No serious writer would confuse sanitisation with diligence. No serious writer w
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I am so excited to be able to talk about this!!
#TheDeathlessGirls
is my imagining of the origin stories of the ‘brides of
#Dracula
’, and what fun I’ve had! Can’t wait for you to meet Kisaiya & Lillai in September, & I can’t wait to meet
@KitdeWaal
’s Dinah in July.
@HachetteKids
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#TheMercies
early proofs have landed at the
@picadorbooks
offices, & my heart is full. This is a very early, limited print run of a very simple edition, & the amazing team have brilliant plans for booksellers, bloggers & other readers, to be announced soon. It’s real. My heart.
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Holding my new book for the first time never ceases to bring me to tears. Thank you
@studiohelen
,
@CPIGroup_
&
@chickenhsebooks
for making this possibly?? the most beautiful book yet.
#ASecretOfBirdsAndBone
is out on 1st October 🦅 🦴
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*NEW BOOK ALERT*
Tom de Freston and I can't wait for you to meet Leila and this amazing blue fox...
#LeilaAndTheBlueFox
From
@Kiran_MH
& Tom de Freston, the husband and wife team behind Waterstones Gift of the Year Julia and The Shark, comes Leila and the Blue Fox, a luminous tribute to the power of determination and friendship. Signed edition with exclusive edge & content:
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It’s here. The first book of the Geomancer Trilogy & my tenth published story, In the Shadow of the Wolf Queen, is published today. It owes so much to the books I loved growing up - Sabriel, His Dark Materials, Earthsea, Wind on Fire.
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Time marches on 😭 every day is loss and gain, loss and gain, especially as she is our first living and our last. But knowing this is our one makes the sweet overwhelm the bitter, the joy overcome the sad. What a blessing to have a child, and to get to see them grow 🧿
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Sharing this today because I want to acknowledge they were here. I want to tell you they were, are, loved, & I am changed. If you know how this feels, as so many of us do, you know the silence only adds to the hurt. I was made a mother, however briefly, & I will carry that always
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Congratulations
@polarworld
@thamesandhudson
- it’s an absolute stunner! So proud to be a part of
#TheWritersMap
, out 4th October.
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Before my Wreck raptures continue, a moment please for this gorgeous Julia and her shark, made by @/bigfatsatsuma (on Instagram). Happy
#WorldBookDay
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I just moved into a lovely new place & have been leaving books out for neighbours. Kept a carefully curated pile aside for some book-loving autistic twins, who want to make their bedroom into a library, & received this gorgeous note.
@davidowenauthor
you have a mega fan!
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Happy Friday from our Coral 🪸
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#TheMercies
paperback is here, & that sprayed edge has ended me. Illustration by David de las Heras, design by Katie Tooke.
Thanks to everyone who has said kind things, & always to
@picadorbooks
- still can’t believe it when I see that imprint logo on the spine next to my name.
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Our home for the week, between the mountains and the sea 🌊 starting a very special story here, wish me luck (look at this lake! Just by the house! Already had a - v v chilly - swim). Won’t be on here much but you can find me on 💕
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