A delightful adventure story from the brilliant Eva Ibbotson, award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea
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A delightful adventure story from the brilliant Eva Ibbotson, award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea
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Description
"Find me a witch!" cried Arriman the Awful, feared Wizard of the North.Arriman has decided to marry. His wife must be a witch of the darkest powers - but which witch will she be? To find the most fiendish, he holds a spell-casting competition.Glamorous Madame Olympia performs the terrifying Symphony of Death and conjures up a thousand plague-bearing rats. The magic of gentle Belladonna, the white witch, goes hopelessly wrong. She produces perfumed flowers instead of snakes. And bats roost in her golden hair instead of becoming blood-sucking vampires.Poor Belladonna longs to be an evil enchantress - but how?
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“The perfect alternative for Harry Potter fans”
Independent on Sunday
This kind of fun will never fail to delight. -- Philip Pullman
Wildly original and wholly satisfying. -- Amanda Craig The Guardian
About the Author
Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna, but when the Nazis came to power her family fled to England and she was sent to boarding school. She became a writer while bringing up her four children, and her bestselling novels have been published around the world. Her books have also won and been shortlisted for many prizes. Eva died peacefully in October 2010 at the age of eighty-five.
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