One Last Thing

"Daddy, please can I say one last thing?" 
 
Mattie is going to bed - she definitely is... She has just one more thing to say before she goes to sleep. 
 
However that one more thing turns out to be a fantastical adventure which guides Mattie and Daddy round the house in pursuit of the tricky, twisty Great Pampoose. But will Mattie ever get to bed? 
 
Celebrating imaginative play amidst the battle of bedtime, these awardwinning first-time collaborators bring to life a rich world of adventure at home.

Natalia O’Hara (Author) Natalia and Lauren are two sisters from the North of England. In the daytime they edit scripts and design sets, and at night they draw and write together. As children they loved fairytales, animal fables and the stories their Polish grandmother told on snowy nights. Hortense and the Shadow is their first picture book. Lizzy Stewart (Illustrator) Lizzy Stewart is an author based in London. She writes and illustrates books for both children and adults. In 2017 her picture book There’s a Tiger in the Garden won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and a World Illustration Award. Her debut full-length novel Alison was published in 2022. She teaches Illustration at Goldsmiths, University of London and has also taught courses at the Tate and on behalf of the National Gallery.

&quot;Daddy, please can I say one last thing?&quot; 
 
Mattie is going to bed - she definitely is... She has just one more thing to say before she goes to sleep. 
 
However that one more thing turns out to be a fantastical adventure which guides Mattie and Daddy round the house in pursuit of the tricky, twisty Great Pampoose. But will Mattie ever get to bed? 
 
Celebrating imaginative play amidst the battle of bedtime, these awardwinning first-time collaborators bring to life a rich world of adventure at home.

Lizzy Stewart

I fell hopelessly in love with The Wreck. Lizzy Stewart has created the most inviting, appealing world for her endlessly compelling characters, whose charm and flaws kept me glued to their dramas and entanglements throughout, and left me utterly bereft at the end. A beautiful, funny, clever, insightful book about friendship, desire and idealism, that tackles the great universal question of how to live.

Satisfyingly detailed and juicy... an utter treat

Lizzy Stewart’s characters feel to me like friends. I want to have a drink with them, hug them, shake them…. The Wreck is a tender and wise portrait of love and friendship that ponders with an astonishingly light touch big questions to do with who we are and how we live. She’s done it again!

What a rare treat to read a graphic novel that deals with love and sex from a sophisticated female perspective. Propulsive and addictive, The Wreck is a dream house filled with deep truths about relationships and yearning for a bigger, freer life, and I wanted to inhabit it forever.

Astrid Goldsmith, author of THE CRYSTAL VASE

Impressive, immersive and full of knotty psychological insight

Joff Winterhart, author of DEAR HISTORIAN

A one-of-a-kind novel: a perfectly-judged story of friendship and mistakes, love, intimacy and the passing of time. I adored every page of it.

Ana Kinsella, author of FRIDA SLATTERY AS HERSELF

Two couples pursue their dream of communal living in the English countryside – and then it all comes tumbling down, in this stunning new work from the prize-winning author of Alison 
 
Charlotte and Francesca were best friends at university in the mid-1970s. But tensions coursed beneath their natural affection, deepening when Fran got together with Charlotte’s friend Adrian, and the two women drifted apart. 
 
When Fran contacts Charlotte out of the blue with an unusual proposal – an invitation to live with her and Adrian in the rambling house they’ve bought in the countryside – Charlotte impulsively persuades her partner, Bill, to accept this tantalising promise of a new kind of community. 
 
At first their new life feels utopian; life and space are shared joyfully. But it doesn’t take long for old tensions to rise to the surface, shattering their illusions and showing each of them in a new light. 
 
The Wreck is a glorious genre-defying illustrated novel about the messy tangle of love, envy and desire that underpins our most precious relationships, and the difficult paths we must take to discover our true selves.

Lizzy Stewart

Praise for The Wreck

I fell hopelessly in love with The Wreck. Lizzy Stewart has created the most inviting, appealing world for her endlessly compelling characters, whose charm and flaws kept me glued to their dramas and entangle ...

Satisfyingly detailed and juicy... an utter treat

Lizzy Stewart’s characters feel to me like friends. I want to have a drink with them, hug them, shake them…. The Wreck is a tender and wise portrait of love and friendship that ponders with an astonishingly l ...

I fell hopelessly in love with The Wreck. Lizzy Stewart has created the most inviting, appealing world for her endlessly compelling characters, whose charm and flaws kept me glued to their dramas and entangle ...

Satisfyingly detailed and juicy... an utter treat

Lizzy Stewart’s characters feel to me like friends. I want to have a drink with them, hug them, shake them…. The Wreck is a tender and wise portrait of love and friendship that ponders with an astonishingly l ...

I fell hopelessly in love with The Wreck. Lizzy Stewart has created the most inviting, appealing world for her endlessly compelling characters, whose charm and flaws kept me glued to their dramas and entangle ...

Satisfyingly detailed and juicy... an utter treat

Lizzy Stewart’s characters feel to me like friends. I want to have a drink with them, hug them, shake them…. The Wreck is a tender and wise portrait of love and friendship that ponders with an astonishingly l ...

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