From multi-award-winning Irish author Celine Kiernan comes a dark fantasy adventure about witches "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. 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 - striding, powerful, and distant. Even if they can save Dad, Mup is not sure anything will ever be the same again...

 

This is book 1 in Wild Magic Trilogy .

This book has been graded for interest at 9-12 years.

There are 288 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Walker Books Ltd .

Born and raised in Dublin, Celine Kiernan trained at the Sullivan Bluth Studios as a classical feature character animator and worked in the film business, operating between Germany, Ireland and the USA. She is also a freelance illustrator. Celine lives in Virginia, County Cavan. Visit her website at www. celinekiernan. com.