The biggest children’s book of the year! The Midwatch is the long-awaited new middle-grade novel from internationally bestselling authorillustrator Judith Rossell, creator of the multi-award-winning novel Withering-by-Sea.

The city was stuffed full of wickedness, everyone knew that

Banished to the Midwatch Institute for Orphans, Runaways and Unwanted Girls, Maggie Fishbone is sure shes in for a life of drudgery. But she quickly discovers theres more to the Midwatch than meets the eye

The city shimmers with jewels and secrets, and soon Maggie is thrust into an adventure that takes her deep underground, high above the clouds and face to face with danger itself.