THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NYT BESTSELLER

'One for Philip Pullman fans'

THE TIMES

'An ingenious fantasy about empire'

GUARDIAN

'Fans of THE SECRET HISTORY, this one is an automatic buy'

GLAMOUR

'Ambitious, sweeping and epic'

EVENING STANDARD

Rebecca F. Kuang is a Marshall Scholar, Chinese-English translator, and the Astounding Award-winning and the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Award nominated author of the Poppy War trilogy and the forthcoming Babel. Her work has won the Crawford Award and the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. She has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford; she is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale.