The winner of the Costa book of the year can’t quite believe that – even after a decade as an author – she hasn’t yet been ‘found out’. She talks about faith, being bullied at school, and finding her vocation in a dolphinarium
It is the morning after the night when Frances Hardinge, author of seven books for older children, astonished one of the book trade’s grandest get-togethers by winning the Costa book of the year prize, in defiance of odds that placed her joint-bottom at 5/1. She is the first children’s author to win since Philip Pullman in 2001 with The Amber Spyglass.
Over breakfast in the library at her publisher’s London office she blinks back her surprise. On her head a black fedora – a style she says she adopted for its sense of adventure.
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