The Lie Tree

　　榮獲2015年柯斯達文學獎（Costa Book of the Year）年度圖書獎，一棵專聽謊言的樹，為什麼會成為她父親被謀殺的關鍵？

　　費絲過著兩種生活。對大多數人來說，她看起來可靠又值得信賴，但在內心世界裡，費絲其實對一切充滿好奇，抗拒不了秘密：她知道一個無人知曉的秘密，她知道她那頗負盛名的科學家父親，是為了逃離一個醜聞，才帶領全家逃到這個叫做Vane的島上。

　　但逃離並沒有為她父親帶來解脫，不久後費絲的父親死了，被認為是畏罪自殺，只有費絲認為父親是遭到謀殺，而這一切可能跟她發現的一棵奇怪的樹有關：只有當她低聲說謊時，這棵樹才會結出果實，而吃了這棵樹的果實之後就會發現一個隱藏的事實。這棵樹可能是了解費絲父親為何被謀殺的關鍵，讓費絲發現隱身幕後的謀殺者到底是誰……。

作者簡介

　　Frances Hardinge was brought up in a sequence of small, sinister English villages, and spent a number of formative years living in a Gothic-looking, mouse-infested hilltop house in Kent. She studied English Language and Literature at Oxford, fell in love with the city's crazed archaic beauty, and lived there for many years.

　　Whilst working full time as a technical author for a software company she started writing her first children's novel, Fly by Night, and was with difficulty persuaded by a good friend to submit the manuscript to Macmillan. Fly by Night went on to win the Branford Boase Award, and was also shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. Her subsequent books, Verdigris Deep, Gullstruck Island, Twilight Robbery, A Face Like Glass, Cuckoo Song and The Lie Tree are also aimed at children and young adults.

　　Frances is seldom seen without her hat and is addicted to volcanoes.