Frances Hardinge

Frances Hardinge is a British author of fantasy fiction for children and young adults. She has won the Costa Book of the Year Award (the first children's book to do so in over a decade) and has been compared to Diana Wynne Jones and Neil Gaiman. Cuckoo Song is one of her darkly inventive fantasy novels — a creepy, atmospheric story set in 1920s England about a girl who slowly realises she may not be who she thinks she is. Hardinge's fiction is celebrated for its extraordinary imagination, its dark humour, and its fearless storytelling. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers brilliantly inventive, darkly atmospheric children's fantasy — stories with the kind of imagination that makes adults wish they were young enough to read them for the first time.