You have arrived for a better life at the New House in the New Land.
You didn’t know what big meant until you saw the city and the suburbs.
You tell yourself everything is going to be fine. The hardest part is over.
You made it.

Meixing Lim and her family have travelled far to reach their new home. Her parents said this would be a better life for them all, but it feels like the worst and most heart-breaking experience of Meixing’s entire existence. Surviving will take all the resilience and inner belief of this brave girl to turn their world around.

A Glasshouse of Stars is based on the real childhood experiences of the author, brushed with a light touch of magic realism and written in second person.

 

Shirley Marr is a first generation Chinese-Australian whose previous young adult titles were published by Walker Books, and her upcoming middle grade by Fremantle Press.

Shirley is a Bespectacled Accountant by day and a Masked Writer at night. Her passion is to distil her cultural heritage in dark and unusual ways through the lens of resilient young women.