Verdigris Deep (aka Well Witched)
✍ Scribed by Frances Hardinge
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 248 KB
- Edition
- UK
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 023071286X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Verdigris n. a blue-green rust that tarnishes ageing and forgotten copper coins, altering them entirely . . . When Ryan and his friends are caught stranded and penniless late one night, they steal some coins from a well for their bus fare home. Soon after, strange things begin to happen. Peculiar marks tingle on Ryan's knuckles, light bulbs mysteriously explode and a terrified Chelle starts speaking words that aren't her own. Then the well witch appears, with her fountains for eyes and gargled demands. From now on, the friends must serve her . . . and the wishes that lie rotting at the bottom of her well. In the tradition of truly fantastic storytelling, VERDIGRIS DEEP is darkly witty, utterly unexpected and shiver-down-the-spine sinister