This book allows you to escape into a fantasy land like no other, it almost feels real. In an attempt to unravel the mystery surrounding her mother and her disappearance, she unearths a traitor, helps her new friend find her brother and proves herself to be worthy of a witch's highest accolade – the Argent Star. The Hedge is a dark and dangerous forest and a place full of wisps, imps and goblins that roam freely between the land of Faerie and Hedgely. Magical mayhem is at the heart and soul of this book and when Cassie is introduced to the residents of Hedgely, she realises that the books that she read at school about Faerie folk are real. ![]() She soon learns that life at Hedgely is different and her mother was a witch, but her mother's disappearance remains a mystery and is a topic that is forbidden to talk about at Hartwell House. Cassie's life is thrown into turmoil when she finds that she has had a family all these years, which her mother had never mentioned. Montague has been instructed to take her to the village of Hedgely - the land that borders the 'Hedge' where she can meet her Aunt the 'Hedgewitch'. On leaving school, things start to happen to Cassie that are unexplainable and when she meets Montague the cat who can talk, things became a little surreal for her. However, on her escape she is cautious as children have started to go missing in London and have not been found. Cassie is under the impression that she has no family and on hearing that her mother is presumed dead, she decides to escape from the grounds of Fowell House forever. Cassie doesn't have any friends at school and often seeks to escape into the books that she reads about magical beings and Faerie lands. She was left there seven years ago by her mother, who promised to return one day and collect her. We are first introduced to the main character - Cassie - at Fowell House, a boarding school for children. It is carefully crafted and full to the brim with magic and mystery. Skye Mckenna’s new fantasy story - Hedgewitch - is the first of five books in her new series. Nominated for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing. It's hard to explain the difference but you know the real ones when you read them, and Hedgewitch is one of them' Philip Reeve. 'There are only two sorts of fantasy story: the ones that feel fake and the ones that feel real. ![]() Will Cassie discover the truth about her mother? Can she find the lost faery treasures before the wicked Erl King gets his hands on them? And what will it take to save her new home - and Britain itself - from the shadowing magic of Faerie? There she will begin her training in the practical skills of witchcraft with the Hedgewitch, who watches over the Hedge, the vast forest that marks the border between England and Faerie. With the help of a talking cat and a flying broom, Cassie escapes to the enchanted village of Hedgely. But the world outside her school is full of hidden magic and children have been going missing. After seven years spent waiting for her mother to return, she flees her dreary boarding school and sets out to find her. Step into the magical world of Hedgewitch, where the land of Faerie lies just beyond our own, in this enchanting new series for children age 9+ and readers of Nevermoor, The Worst Witch and The Dark Is Rising.Ĭassie Morgan has run away. 'Magical in every sense of the word' Eoin Colfer.
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