Kiran Millwood Hargrave

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Kiran Millwood Hargrave

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Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an award-winning writer whose work has been translated into over 30 languages and optioned for stage and screen. Almost Life, her third novel for adults, will be published by Picador (UK) and Summit (US) in March 2026.

Her debut adult novel The Mercies debuted at number one of the The Times bestseller list, was a top-ten Sunday Times bestseller, and was selected for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club and the Richard and Judy Summer Reads. It was a finalist for the prestigious Prix Femina in France, won a Betty Trask Award, and was called 'unquestionably the book of the 2018 London Book Fair' by The Bookseller. The Dance Tree was shortlisted for the HWA Gold Crown Award and picked for the BBC Two Between Two Covers Book Club
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The Mercies

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The Girl of Ink and Stars

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The Dance Tree

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The Deathless Girls

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The Way Past Winter

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A Secret of Birds & Bone

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Poems: Grace

Grace
In the moments of his leaving himself
his hands shook and could not take mine.
Instead he stared
and handed through the silence
the slightest cup of my chin
rolled my cheeks between his fingers
like dough, and in those seconds
he still needed me,
and it was a blessing as complete as bread.
Inside the night-time minutes
he held me with this gaze
until the slender tap of knuckle
at his throat wound b Read more of this blog post »
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Almost Life by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
"Did you ever think, “I wish I could read a more devastating version of Normal People that had bits of One Day in it and most everyone was queer?” Because boy, do I have a book for you. "
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“Each of us carries the map of our lives on our skin, in the way we walk, even in the way we grow.”
Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“Grief cannot feed you, though it fills you.”
Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies

“It's hard, isn't it? Describing a person only in words, when they can hold whole worlds in them.”
Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Island at the End of Everything

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