The Midnight Sweet Factory

By: Clare Povey

Series : Wanderdays Adventures (#2)

Age 9+

RRP NZ$19.99

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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.

Details

Extent:: 320 pages
Dimensions:: 198 x 130mm
Paperback ISBN:: 9781803708096
Book Band:: Dark Blue
Publication Date:: September 2025
Work Reference:: 8776

Author

Clare Povey is an author, avid language learner and the proud owner of four Blue Peter badges.
She wanted to be a marine biologist when she was younger but found science difficult and so decided to create stories about the wonders of the natural world instead.

Her first novel for younger readers The Unexpected Tale of Bastien Bonlivre was a Waterstones Children's Book of the Month and was inspired by her time studying French at university and living in Lille.

She has dealt with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) her entire life and now writes stories about characters who have adventures and are forever curious about the world, despite their intrusive thoughts.

Find out more about Clare Povey

Series

View series: Book 2 in Wanderdays Adventures series

Press

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.

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