The Way Past Winter by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

We thought this book was going to be a story with an environmental message, it was disappointing that these events happened, the bear was the guardian of the forest, but because too much had been taken from the forest by man and endless winter had been given to the people, the culmination was that rather than promise the bear they would help the environment, the bear was killed. We really enjoyed the fairy tales of the heart tree and how this tree was sacred and their well being depended upon it. Following the events that happen that night, a journey is undertaken to save a sibling.Īt first we thought this would be too much like Gerda's journey to rescue Kay from the snow Queen, but this storyline had so much going for it. An ideal story to read by an open fire, essential to read in winter and preferable to read just at the end of winter when the hope of spring is in sight.Īs the book description says, three sisters live with their brother until a stranger turns up. This was a very enjoyable and atmospheric read aloud. Kiran lives in Oxford with her husband and their cats, Luna and Marly. She is represented by Hellie Ogden (UK) and Kirby Kim (US) at Janklow & Nesbit. Writing for the New York Times Book Review, Emily Barton called it 'among the best novels I've read in years', and it won a Betty Trask Award.

Her first book for adults, The Mercies, debuted as The Times number 1 bestseller, and at number 5 in the Sunday Times Bestseller Charts. Her debut YA novel The Deathless Girls was published in 2019, and was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, and long listed for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Julia and the Shark, in collaboration with her husband, artist Tom de Freston, was Indie Book of the Month, Scottish Booktrust Book of the Month, and has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2021. A Secret of Birds & Bone, her fourth middle grade title, was published in 2020. Her books include the bestselling winner of the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017 The Girl of Ink & Stars, and Costa Book Awards- and Blue Peter Awards-shortlisted The Island at the End of Everything, and The Way Past Winter, Blackwell's Children's Book of the Year 2018. Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an award winning poet, playwright, and novelist.

The Way Past Winter by Kiran Millwood Hargrave