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Cecily Sawyer: How to Be A Spy (2025)
The first book in my new spy trilogy will launch in June 2025!
Cecily Sawyer has spent the evening in the attic, training her pet mouse, Mrs Maple-Syrup – an unusually intelligent mouse, in Cecily’s opinion – when her parents disappear. Luckily, Cecily is more than ready to investigate such a thing. She has wanted to be a spy her whole life, and has all the spy handbooks, manuals and code-cracking kits a girl could need.
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But soon, Cecily discovers several very strange things in her city. She's not the only spy out there – far from it, in fact. And Mrs Maple-Syrup is not the only unusually intelligent mouse...
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Sure to become a classic
The Scotsman
Reviews
This debut novel is a delight. Full of unexpected phrases and illustrated with just the right degree of freedom and quirkiness by David Tazzyman
The Sunday Times
An outstanding debut.
Funny and surprising
The Times Best Books for Children 2021