Montague, though? A mixture of wisdom and cattitude, Montague is perfect already. We’ve gone to work with the Hedgewitch but I suspect her page time will increase as the series continues and we’ll get to see what she’s truly capable of. Rue and Tabitha have the makings of being both supportive friends to Cassie and good teammates.
While Ivy has the potential for complexity due to both her personality and home life, so far she’s mostly sycophantic.
The pain she feels as a result of her mother’s absence is always there but, despite this, Cassie has an unshakeable optimism.
Once she arrives in Hedgely, some things come naturally to her but she struggles with others. When we join twelve year old Cassie at Fowell House, she’s an outcast whose primary escape when she’s perfecting her invisibility is reading. Being a new series, there were so many new people and non-humans to meet. The first in a five book series, Hedgewitch was a lot of fun. It turns out the stories Cassie has been reading about faeries shouldn’t have been filed under fiction, and witchcraft? It’s real, too. When Cassie runs away from her boarding school, a talking cat named Montague accompanies her to Hedgely, where she meets the family she never knew existed. Cassie never imagined she would still be waiting for her seven years later, behind the bars of Fowell House, with its questionable food, detestable teachers, a headmistress who’d give the Trunchbull a run for her money and the bullies on the hockey team. All Cassie Morgan has to remember her mother by is a mysterious key and the promise she made that she would wait for her. The titles and publication schedules of books 4, 5 and 6 are still to be confirmed.Our wards and charms are laid. Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow will be published in ANZ in late January 2020, in the UK in early February, and in the US in March. News of the international rights deal for books 4–6 comes as Hachette Australia announced details for the third book in the ‘Nevermoor’ series. Rights have been sold in 38 languages and optioned by 20th Century Fox, with Drew Goddard (a staff writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel) set to write and produce the film. Townsend’s debut, Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Lothian), broke the record for the fastest selling children’s debut in Australian history and was also the UK’s bestselling children’s debut in 2018. I’m delighted to be taking this next step with them.’ Townsend said she is ‘thrilled to be growing and deepening this series’, adding, ‘Hachette has been a wonderful home for Morrigan and for me. To three new books in Jessica Townsend’s ‘Nevermoor’ series have been jointly acquired by Hachette Australia, Hachette Children’s Group UK and Little, Brown Books for Young Readers in the US, via Gemma Cooper of the Bent Agency.
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