A dark blue book cover with stormy skies and crashing waves. A girl with seaweed hair sits in a dinghy, frightened, with a spider on her shoulder. A sea monster rises from the water. The book's title reads A Girl Called Corpse, author Reece Carter.

With a body made of wax, seaweed for hair and polished abalone shells for eyes, Corpse is bound to haunt the Witches' sea shack forever. She has no memory of the kid she was before she was snatched and ended up on the rock-that-doesn't-exist.

But the delivery of an unexpected message sets Corpse off on a surprising quest, searching for answers to the old and familiar questions that have filled her not-brain since the day she first woke up a ghost. Questions about her name. Questions about her family.

With only her eight-legged friend Simon for company, Corpse heads into the unknown. There will be danger - cruel Witches, a silver-eyed sea monster and a cunning Merchant with a hungry grin - but Corpse is not afraid. She'll stop at nothing to uncover the truth about her past.

Only some answers, it turns out, are much closer than she thinks.

A sparkling adventure story about friendship, family and finding out that there is nothing more powerful than a kid acting with their whole heart.

QBD Books - Children’s Book of the Year 2022

Dymocks Booksellers - Children’s Book of the Month, October 2022

Shortlisted - Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) - Book of the Year for Younger Children, 2023

Shortlisted - Australian Book Design Awards (ABDA) - Best Designed Children’s Fiction Cover, 2023

Longlisted - BookPeople Book of the Year Awards, Children’s Book of the Year, 2023

Unique and soulful, this is a story about heart, in more ways than one.
— Sunday Telegraph
Think Roald Dahl by way of Tim Burton.
— Books+Publishing
An Australian-style Neil Gaiman.
— Sydney Morning Herald