The judges for the Children's Book Award 'loved dark, sprawling, fiercely clever novel', stating it would 'grip readers of all ages', while the chair of the judges for the Book of the Year award described the book as a 'real page turner', suitable for adults as much as for children. In pursuit of revenge and justice for the father she idolizes, Faith hunts through his possessions, where she discovers a strange tree. In the 2015 Costa Book Awards, The Lie Tree won both in the Children's Book Award category and the overall Book of the Year, an achievement only previously managed by Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass in 2001. Set in the patriarchal, scientific society of the Victorian era in Great Britain, it follows Faith Sunderly, a teenager whose father dies of unknown causes when the Sunderly family relocates from Kent to the remote island of Vane. The Sunday Times named the book its children's book of the year for 2015. The Lie Tree is a children’s fantasy novel published by Frances Hardinge in 2015. The Guardian praised The Lie Tree's 'convincing picture of the times' and Hardinge's 'trademark wit and intelligence', calling the book 'at once entertaining and provocative'. Lucy Mangan Complex and intelligent: a lustrous. I cant think of anyone who would not love this story. Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls The Lie Tree is a wonder. The lies and rumors that Faith starts grow rapidly and events soon become out of control. The Lie Tree is brilliant: dark, thrilling, utterly original. In her efforts to discover what happened to her father, and to follow his footsteps of studying natural science, she discovers a tree that provides truths by feeding on whispered lies. The Lie Tree is set in the male-dominated Victorian scientific society, and tells the story of Faith Sunderly, a 14-year-old girl whose father is killed under mysterious circumstances after the family moves to a small island to get away from London. The book won the 2015 Costa Book of the Year. Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2015.The Lie Tree is a wonderfully evocative and atmospheric novel by Frances Hardinge, award-winning author of Cuckoo.

The Lie Tree is the seventh children's fantasy novel by Frances Hardinge, published in 2015 by Macmillan Publishers.

The lie tree series in order