Corban Loosestrife's life changed the day he returned to his family steading in Ireland and found it destroyed by Vikings and his father, mother, and brothers all slain, but his twin sister, Mav, was not among the dead, and so he knew that she had been taken as a slave. Determined to redeem her, Cor
Begone the Raggedy Witches
β Scribed by Celine Kiernan
- Publisher
- Walker Books;Candlewick Press
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-UK
- Weight
- 252 KB
- Edition
- First U.S. edition;UK retail
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0763699969
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
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, Katherine Rundell and Sally Gardner. On the night that Aunty dies the Raggedy Witches come for Mup's mam. Pale, cold, relentless, they will do anything to coax Mam back to Witches' Borough, a suppressed magical realm. When they kidnap Mup's dad, Mup and her mam must leave the mundane world to rescue him. But Mam is strange on this side of the border β striding, powerful, and distant. Even if they can save Dad, Mup is not sure anything will ever be the same again...
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