
Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| British Fantasy Award for Best Novel | 2023 | Winner | “Jen Williams won her third BFA for Best Fantasy Novel with a powerful standalone epic, recognized for her continued excellence in British secondary world fantasy and the emotional depth of her characterization.” |
About This Book
Two young women—one human, one Eboran—are thrown together by fate and war, forced to forge an alliance that might be the only thing standing between their world and utter destruction.
About the Author
Jen Williams is a British author of epic fantasy who won the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel three times—for The Ninth Rain (2018), The Bitter Twins (2019), and Talonsister (2024). This remarkable record of consistent excellence makes her one of the dominant forces in the British Fantasy Award's recent history. Williams was born in 1980 and studied literature at Anglia Ruskin University. Read more →
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