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An action-packed, sugar-fuelled adventure by Waterstones Book of the Month author, Clare Povey. Wonka meets Spy Kids - a deliciously dangerous mouth-watering mystery.When Flo and Joseph Wanderday unwrap a Midnight Treats gobstopper, they're expecting to find a sugary sweet, not a mysterious message that kickstarts the adventure of a lifetime.""HELP! Trapped in Midnight Forest. Come before it is too late.""With adventure in their hearts and sugar in their stomachs, the Wanderdays must find the Midnight Forest, journey through its sweet-themed tricks and trials, and face their greatest threat yet: sweet-factory workers who aren't in control of their own minds...An action-packed, sugar-fuelled adventure by Waterstones Book of the Month author, Clare Povey.

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The Midnight Sweet Factory is a fast-paced, colourful and fabulously inventive adventure that will leave your mouth watering. It was a joy to return to the world of the Wanderdays. Clare Povey's imagination is deliciously fun. * Philippa Leathley, author of Inkbound *

The Midnight Sweet Factory is a fast-paced, colourful and fabulously inventive adventure that will leave your mouth watering. It was a joy to return to the world of the Wanderdays. Clare Povey's imagination is deliciously fun. * Philippa Leathley, author of Inkbound * Treat yourself to this gobstopping romp where our daring detectives dash into all sorts of sweet peril and mouth watering adventure. -- Chris Callaghan, author of The Great Chocoplot Readers are drawn into a world where sweets conceal secrets and courage proves the greatest ingredient. Parents will applaud the timely environmental themes and inventive plotting, and children will delight in the magical confectionery, perilous twists and triumphant sense of adventure. * Preneur World * Lots of fun, the story also carries threads about looking after our planet - not in a preachy or lecturing kind of way but woven into the narrative quite naturally, so that this is not just a great adventure but one that leaves the reader knowing more about the world around them than they did when they picked it up. * Mrs Sydney's Famous World's Smallest Library blog * Packed to the treetops with non-stop action, brilliant baddies, two breathtakingly audacious children and important reminders about the dangers of deforestation, the wonderful wanderings of the Wanderdays are guaranteed to have young readers turning the pages and already booking in for the next thrilling outing! * Lancaster Post News Syndicate Group * Overall, this book is a delightful escape into a magical world where adventure awaits at every turn. Whether you're a long-time fan of fantasy or a newcomer to the genre, you'll find this tale to be a captivating journey that's both heartwarming and exhilarating. -- Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books blog

Author Information

Clare Povey is an author and the editorial and communities manager of the Writers' & Artists' website. She fell in love with France as a child, inspired by the stories in her local Redbridge & Dagenham Library, and by discovering the vocabulary in Usborne's First Thousand Words in French. The magic of speaking another language eventually led to her living and working in France, and writing her debut series, the Parisian-based The Unexpected Tale of Bastien Bonlivre.

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