Waer — Meg Caddy

When Lowell Sencha finds the strange girl lying as if dead on the riverbank, he is startled to find that she is like them: waer. Human, but able to assume the form of a wolf. The Sencha family's small community has kept itself sequestered and unnoticed, free from persecution. The arrival of a fellow traveller, and a hunted one at that, threatens their very survival.


Sure enough, the soldiers of the blood-purist Daeman Leldh soon descend on the village searching for her, burning and slaughtering. Lowell and the mysterious stranger are among the few to escape. And now they must find their way to the city of Luthan where, she says, they will find people to help them bring down Daeman Leldh. 

If she can persuade them not to kill her.


This brilliant young adult fantasy debut from young Australian writer Meg Caddy sees the emergence of an exciting new talent in speculative fiction.


Meg Caddy is a student of Literature and History at the University of Western Australia. Waer is her debut novel and was shortlisted for the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing. Meg was the 2013 Young Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre, and has been mentored by fantasy author Juliet Marillier. For the past five years, Meg has been working with children of all ages.


‘An astonishing debut…The writing is assured, the action is swift and the characters ring as true as Caddy's psychological insights.' West Australian


‘This book has broken my heart, collected my soul and has me falling in love with it!' Tilly and Her Books


‘This novel has all the fast-paced action and enjoyment of the first Eragon novel, but it is far more layered and original.' Incredible Rambling Emily