Children’s and young adult fiction · A series by A.R. Brown

St Elowen’s

Lumen servamus. We keep the light.

A boarding-school series for readers of seven and upwards, and for reading aloud to anyone at all.

The reading order Visit St Elowens.com
An illustration of St Elowen’s: a great gothic school with a clock tower at the end of a long drive, beneath an evening sky.

The world

Welcome to St Elowen’s

St Elowen’s is a great, rambling house at the end of a long drive, and it is also a way of going on. There has been a school there for a hundred and fifty years, and in a hundred and fifty years a school gathers a great many secrets.

There are three houses, Elm, Oak and Holly, and one Cup. Oak has held it three years running. Elm would very much like it back. There are traditions handed down without anyone quite remembering how they started, a library that is not to be trifled with, and, high in a locked tower where no one is allowed to climb, a small golden light that burns in the dead of night.

The school does not discuss it.

The beginning of The Star of Promise, free to read on stelowens.com, asking nobody for anything at all.

Read the first three chapters

Characters

Some of the people you will meet

  • Emily AshworthFirst Form, Elm. All she wants, on her first day, is to belong.
  • Poppy, Sophie, Iris, Beth, Lucinda and Felicity, called FlickFirst Form, Elm. The rest of the dormitory.
  • Miss WinthropThe Headmistress, who does not raise her voice.
  • MatronWho has an opinion.
  • Miss LarkspurThe librarian, who is not to be trifled with in her own library.
  • Mr WellsThe gardener.

Reading order

The books, in order

  2. A Term in ParisBook Two. Finished, and on its way.
  3. Book ThreeIn development.
Children’s and young adult fiction · A series

St Elowen’s

Book 1: The Star of Promise, by A.R. Brown

Some doors are locked for a reason. Some lights must never go out.

All Emily Ashworth wants, on her first day at St Elowen’s, is to belong. What she finds is a midnight feast, a secret den among the pines, and a small golden light in a locked tower that nobody will explain.

There has been a school at St Elowen’s for a hundred and fifty years, at the end of a long drive in the Weald of Kent, and in all that time a light has burned in its tower. Nobody will say who lights it. Emily Ashworth arrived in September and started asking. Step through the gates of St Elowen’s. You may never want to leave.

For readers of seven and upwards, and for reading aloud to anyone at all.Coming soon
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