Enjoy insights with one of the stand-out authors of 2020. Kiran Millwood Hargrave is well known as the writer of some of the best teen fantasy titles like the Girl of Ink and Stars, and the Island at the End of Everything. Her fabulous new book The Mercies is her first adult novel.
Beneath the sunken sun in Norway’s winter islands, twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter watches the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of Vardø must fend for themselves. Inspired by the real events of the Vardø storm and the 1621 witch trials, this is a story of love, evil, and obsession, set at the everdark edge of civilisation.
Kiran will be in conversation with Rachael Howorth from the Edge of the World Bookshop in Penzance. Rachael has enjoyed Kiran’s books for years and is delighted to be able to discuss Kiran’s world of fantasy and witchery. Join us for an entertaining evening of literary surprises and insights.
Kiran Millwood Hargrave (b. 1990) is an award-winning poet, playwright, and novelist. Her bestselling works for children have won numerous awards including the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the British Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year, and the Blackwell’s Children’s Book of the Year, and been shortlisted for prizes such as the Costa Children’s Book Award and the Blue Peter Best Story Award.The Mercies is her first novel for adults.
