Stella and the Elephant

By Maggie Brooke

When Stella Stardust, a ten-year-old girl from northern New South Wales in 1875, was born the mysterious Aboriginal midwife who delivered her placed a strange-smelling amulet around her neck, for a ‘special child’. Fortune, the oldest elephant in captivity in the Southern Hemisphere, has been with The Amazing Travelling Stardust

• Language: English
• Publisher: Maggie Brooke
• Release date: Jul 8, 2019
• ISBN: 9781645703792

Maggie Brooke

Maggie Brooke was born on a farm in Kansas and now she lives in Oz. (No ruby slippers, please, she doesn’t want to go back!) She is a free-lance writer and, although she’s had many stories, poems and articles published this is her first novel to hit the big time.She’s lived more places, worked more jobs, had more men than she cares to remember. Favourite place to live – tropical island in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Favourite job – delivering babies in an African jungle. Favourite men – her gorgeous grandsons. She now lives in North Queensland with her dog, Gideon.

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