THE MAGICAL CONCLUSION TO STELLA'S AWARD-WINNING STORY

Stella Montgomery is in disgrace. The Aunts have sent her to Wakestone Hall, a grim boarding school where the disobedient are tamed and the wilful are made meek. But when a friend disappears, Stella is determined to find her - no matter the danger ...

Soon Stella is thrown deeper into the mysteries of Wakestone ... and her own past. Will Stella save her friend in time? And will she discover - at long last - where she truly belongs?

Bestselling writer-illustrator Judith Rossell returns with the breathtaking final adventure in this award-winning series.

Winner - 2019 Davitt Awards

SERIES AWARDS

Withering-by-Sea (Book 1)

Winner - 2015 Indie Awards, Book of the Year: Children's & YA

Winner - 2015 Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year: Older Children

Winner - 2015 Davitt Awards

Honour Book - 2015 Children's Book Council of Australia Awards

Shortlisted - 2015 Prime Minister's Literary Awards

Shortlisted - 2014 Aurealis Awards

Shortlisted - 2017 Australian Book Design Awards

Wormwood Mire (Book 2)

Winner - 2017 Davitt Awards

Shortlisted - 2017 Indie Awards, Book of the Year: Children's & YA

Shortlisted - 2017 Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year: Older Children

Shortlisted - 2017 ABA Booksellers' Choice Award

Shortlisted - 2017 Australian Book Design Awards

Notable Book - 2017 Children's Book Council of Australia Awards

Judith Rossell is the multi-award-winning author-illustrator of the bestselling Stella Montgomery series (Withering-by-Sea, Wormwood Mire, Wakestone Hall and A Garden of Lilies: Improving Tales for Young Minds). Before beginning her career in children's books, Judith worked as a government scientist (not a mad scientist, a normal kind of scientist) and also for a cotton-spinning company (that made threads for T-shirts and denim jeans and mops and teabag strings). Judith has written thirteen books and illustrated more than eighty. Her work has been published in the US and UK, and translated into more than twenty languages. Judith lives in Melbourne, Australia with a cat the size of a walrus.