A mysterious and unforgettable multi-award-winning novel from beloved author Gillian Rubinstein.

A mysterious and unforgettable dream this multi-award-winning book is a fable of shape-shifters and animal spirits of teenage gangs and schoolyard friends and finding your place in the world—or worlds—all concentrated in a dense vivid corner of the half-wild Adelaide hills.

First published in 1994 Foxspell won the CBCA Book of the Year: Older Readers 1995 and the National Library of Australia National Audio Book-of-the-Year Award TDK Australian Audio Book Award in the Abridged Fiction Category 1996 and was an American Bookseller ‘Pick of the Lists’ in 1996. It was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards — Diabetes Australia Alan Marshall Prize for Children’s Literature in 1995 and for the Festival Awards for Literature (SA) and the New South Wales State Literary Awards [now NSW Premier’s Awards] in 1996.