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Frances hardinge is a british author best known for her novel fly by night which in 2006 won the branford boase award and was listed as one of the school library journals best books. This author wrote articles for the 19 catholic encyclopedia, and the list on this page is complete. Oct 31, 2019 fly by night is the stunning debut novel from frances hardinge, author of the costa award winning the lie tree. Her debut novel, fly by night, won the 2006 branford boase award and was listed as one of the school library journal best books, while her 2015 novel the lie tree won the 2015 costa book award, the first childrens book to do so since philip pullmans the amber spyglass in 2001. A changed man, which won the dayton literary peace prize. Fly trap, the sequel to fly by night, will be reissued in the spring, along with verdigris deep formerly titled well wished. She read english at oxford university, then got a job at a software company.
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