When witches kidnap her dad, Mup is swept up in a wild tide of magic
that carries her to another world. Can she reunite her family and find
her way back?
On the night that Aunty dies, the raggedy witches come for Mup's family.
Pale, cold, and relentless, the witches will do anything for the
tyrannical queen who has outlawed most magic and enforces her laws with
terror and cruelty -- and who happens to be Mup's grandmother. When
witches carry off her dad, Mup and her mam leave the mundane world to
rescue him. But everything is odd in the strange, glittering Witches
Borough, even Mam. Even Mup herself. In a world of rhyming crows,
talking cats, and golden forests, it's all Mup can do to keep her wits
about her. And even if she can save her dad, Mup's not sure if anything
will ever be the same again. First in a new trilogy by Irish author
Celine Kiernan, this tale of family and forbidden magic charts a fresh
path through the landscape of beloved fantasy tradition -- and promises
to bewitch any reader in search of stories to love.