She wrote Fly by Night in her spare time and only showed it to a publisher after being pestered by a stubborn friend. Frances always liked dark stories - when she was six, she wrote a short story that included an attempted poisoning, a faked death and a villain being thrown off a cliff - all in just one page! Frances went on to study English at Oxford University and was a founding member of a writers' workshop there.įrances Hardinge - Writing Her Way to Successįrances Hardinge turned her love of books into her career after winning a magazine short story competition. Her creepy, isolated surroundings would later inspire her first novel, Fly by Night. Frances Hardinge grew up in a big, old house in rural Kent, England where she dreamed of being an author from the age of four.
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