Hilary McKay won the Guardian Children's Award with her first novel, The Exiles. Her subsequent work has achieved similar recognition. The Exiles at Home won the Smarties Prize and the Dog Friday trilogy was also critically acclaimed. A graduate of Botany and Zoology, Hilary now writes full-time. She lives in Derbyshire, England, with her husband and children.
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Saffron's two sisters, Cadmium and Rose, and her brother Indigo were all named from a color chart by their mother Eve, a fine-arts painter. When Saffron, known as Saffy, discovers that her name is not on the chart, it soon leads to another discovery. Sh... SEE MORE