Shirley Marr

Official Website of Shirley Marr, Author of Young Adult and Childrens Fiction

A Glasshouse of Stars

An exquisite, heartbreakingly beautiful gem of a novel for anyone who loved Wonder, Lenny’s Book of Everything, A Monster Calls or When You Reach Me.

Shirley Marr’s new middle grade novel A Glasshouse of Stars is OUT NOW INTERNATIONALLY in Australia, UK and the US through Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster and Usborne Books! Available at all bookstores and online, in paperback, eBook and audiobook. Also available in a US hardback edition.

Praise for A Glasshouse of Stars

Heart-twisting and hopeful, bursting with big feelings and gentle magic. This is a special book from a powerful, compassionate new voice in children’s literature.

JESSICA TOWNSEND, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE NEVERMOOR SERIES

Poignant and beautifully told. I loved this book

MELINA MARCHETTA, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI

A Glasshouse of Stars is a rare and beautiful masterpiece; deeply heartfelt, dreamily magical, and glitteringly hopeful. I adored it!

SOPHIE ANDERSON, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE HOUSE WITH CHICKEN LEGS

About the Author

Shirley Marr is a first generation Chinese-Australian living in sunny Perth and an author of Young Adult and children’s fiction. Her titles are A Glasshouse of Stars, Little Jiang, Preloved and Fury.  It was while she was working on a very dry Accounting PhD that she realised she'd rather be writing down her dark, twisted daydreams instead. She is still a Bespectacled Accountant by day and a Masked Writer at night. Shirley describes … Read More about About the Author

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