Withering-by-Sea: The Complete Collection Boxed Set (Stella Montgomery, #1-3)

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Discover Judith Rossell's bestselling and multi-award-winning fantasy-adventure series, now in a beautiful gift boxed set. 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 ... From bestselling, multi-award-winning Australian writer Judith Rossell comes her thrilling and lushly illustrated fantasy-adventure series, which has captivated readers everywhere. AWARDS FOR STELLA MONTGOMERY Children's Book Council of Australia Awards: Honour Book 2015, Notable Book 2017 Indie Awards, Book of the Year: Children's & YA: Winner 2015, Shortlisted 2017 Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year: Older Children: Winner 2015, Shortlisted 2017 Davitt Awards: Winner 2015, Winner 2017, Winner 2019 Australian Book Design Awards: Shortlisted 2017 Prime Minister's Literary Awards: Shortlisted 2015 Aurealis Awards: Shortlisted 2014 ABA Booksellers' Choice Award: Shortlisted 2017

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. www.judithrossell.com