
Cuckoo Song
Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| British Fantasy Award for Best Novel | 2014 | Winner | “Frances Hardinge's changeling horror-fantasy won for its precise period atmosphere, its extraordinary reveal of the protagonist's true nature, and its compassionate treatment of a monstrous situation.” |
About This Book
A girl in 1920s England wakes up not quite herself—and as she investigates the disturbing changes in her own nature, she discovers a horrifying truth about who—and what—she really is.
About the Author
Frances Hardinge is a British author of children's and young adult fantasy celebrated for her extraordinary imagination, complex plots, and vivid secondary worlds. She won the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel for Cuckoo Song (2015), as well as the Costa Children's Book Award and the Costa Book of the Year for The Lie Tree (2015). Born in Gloucestershire and raised partly in a small village and partly in Kent, Hardinge studied English Literature at Oxford. Read more →
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