Withering-By-Sea

WINNER ABIA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR YOUNGER READERS

High on a cliff above the gloomy coastal town of Withering-by-Sea stands the Hotel Majestic. Inside the walls of the damp, dull hotel, eleven-year-old orphan Stella Montgomery leads a miserable life with her three dreadful Aunts.

But one night, Stella sees something she shouldn't have ... Something that will set in motion an adventure more terrifying and more wonderful than she could ever have hoped for ...

Discover the gorgeously illustrated series that's loved by tens of thousands of readers!

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

About the Author

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.