She has been nominated for, and won several other awards, being shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal for Cuckoo Song and winning the coveted Costa Book of the Year Award for The Lie Tree. Summary: On an island off the south coast of Victorian England. The book went on to publish to huge critical acclaim and win the Branford Boase First Novel Award. Publisher Information: New York, NY: Amulet Books, 2016. The Dark Is Rising books by Susan Cooper, The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, and Puck of Pook’s Hill by Kipling, The Thirteen Clocks, Alan Garner, Leon Garfield, Catherine Storr, murder mysteries. When the tree is told a lie and that lie is spread further in the community, the tree bears a fruit that gives whoever consumes it in the knowledge of a powerful secret. But inside Faith is burning with questions and curiosity. The tree has special powers as well that her father was trying to unlock. To most people she is modest and well manneredâa proper young lady who knows her place.
However, a few years later a persistent friend finally managed to bully Frances into sending a few chapters of Fly by Night, her first children's novel, to a publisher. The Lie Tree description : To earn a secret so profound I would need to tell momentous lies and make as many people as possible believe themâ¦Faith Sunderly leads a double life. But neither, it seemed, were other ladies.
Faith had always told herself that she was not like other ladies. She read English at Oxford University, then got a job at a software company. 24,529 ratings, 3.85 average rating, 3,653 reviews. Biography: Frances Hardinge spent a large part of her childhood in a huge old house that inspired her to write strange stories from an early age.
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