From multi-award-winning Irish author Celine Kiernan comes a fantasy adventure about witches and forbidden magic.
“Ireland's answer to JK Rowling.” Sunday Independent A middle-grade fantasy adventure perfect for fans of Frances Hardinge and Katherine Rundell. When witches kidnap Mup’s dad, she must journey to their home to save him, and so begins a fantastical adventure of rhyming crows, talking cats and outlawed magic. For Witches Borough is a dangerous place, ruled by a tyrannical queen and her band of raggedy witches.
Reviews:
[…] expect rhyming crows, talking cats and outlawed magic in Kiernan’s first middle-grade fantasy adventure. Beautiful cover' The Bookseller
“a spellbinding novel […] full of enchantment, adventure, humour, friendship, and bravery. It celebrates difference and originality, and is populated with brilliantly unique and vivid characters […] a classic hero in the making.”' Parent Talk
The reader will be hooked from the very first sentence. Being the first book in the trilogy, there is a lot of information about the characters and the witches' world to introduce to the reader but the story moves on quickly with some terrifying battle sequences and revelations.' School Zone