Also featured are Wagner (Aunt Alberta's enormous owl that was found in a war), Soot (a ghost of a chimney sweep) and Gibbon (the Saxby's elderly butler who offers much comic relief).

She lacks all sympathy and morals, having chosen to fight on the German side in World War I simply because she preferred their uniforms.

The only child of Lord Chester Saxby and his wife, she lost her parents in a car accident she suspected Alberta to be involved in.

Herbert went missing soon after his birth and ended up returning to Saxby Hall at the age of 10 as a chimney sweep, but died some time later.

After hearing from a gang of boys that he could get food and lodging if he worked as a c Alberta Saxby- The titular character of the book and Stella's aunt.

It is mentioned that he is a "Great Bavarian Mountain Owl" and was adopted by Alberta when she stole the egg that would become Wagner and sat on it until it hatched.

Adapted and directed by Neal Foster, the run started in September 2017 at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, and finished in January 2019 at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London, and featured Georgina Leonidas as Stella, Timothy Speyer as Aunt Alberta, Ashley Cousins as Soot, and James Endears as Gibbon.