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At Lady Hardinge Hospital, the grieving family of Riya, 7, completed the paperwork so they could receive her body.

Catherine Hardinge, a partner at Price Bailey chartered accountants, is a specialist in CIC compliance.

Mensah also announced Baby Reindeer, a series about a female stalker penned by Sex Education writer Richard Gadd and adaptations of Stuart Turton’s Costa award winning novel The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Frances Hardinge’s horror novel Cuckoo Song and Sally Green’s trilogy Half Bad – produced by Lord of the Rings actor Andy Serkis’ company.

Already the winner of the Waterstones children’s book prize for older readers, the book has just won Hyder the Branford Boase award, which goes to the author and editor of an outstanding debut children’s book, won in the past by Meg Rosoff, Mal Peet and Frances Hardinge, among others.

The young adult genre produced many books of genuine literary merit during the 2010s, from John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars to Frances Hardinge’s The Lie Tree, which won the 2015 Costa Book of the Year Award against a field of adult novels.