Shirley Marr

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

ALL FOUR QUARTERS OF THE MOON

is now out in Australia & New Zealand from Penguin Random House and in the USA by Simon & Schuster! Happy Birthday Book Baby! Available in all good bookstores and online. To be followed by Usborne Books (UK) soon.

A GLASSHOUSE OF STARS

is shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year: Younger Readers 2022, shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards 2022 – Children’s Book Award and also shortlisted for Readings Children’s Fiction Prize 2022. Egad!

Winner of The WA Premier’s Book Awards – Writing for Children 2021! Described by the judges as a “… ground-breaking book for older readers … like all excellent literature, this book enlarges our collective understanding of the world.

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 an award winning childrens' author and a first generation Chinese-Australian living in sunny Perth. Her titles are Fury, Preloved, Little Jiang, A Glasshouse of Stars and All Four Quarters of the Moon.  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 … Read More about About the Author

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