Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

Name: Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
ISBN: 9780993574733

Sara Pascoe, Simon Avery, Alexander Lindsey

2015·368 pages·young adult

Fantasy Science Fiction

eerie magic time travel witchcraft

“'It's a rollercoaster plot with gorgeous historical detail and fabulous characters...Magical.'”
— The Sun, London

Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For is a Young Adult time-slip novel about an emotionally wounded, fourteen-year-old foster girl who runs away not knowing she's a witch. Rachel (who prefers the nickname Raya) leaves her bland existence in a small village for the excitement of life on her own in London. But it turns out not only is she a witch, she also has this annoying ability to time travel, by accident. After the other kid at her last foster placement, the eleven-year-old Jake secretly follows her to London, she inadvertently flings herself back to the 1645 English Essex Witch Trials, along with a sarcastic witch's cat, Oscar. They are soon recognised as too different and thrown into prison for 'witchcrafte' by the notorious Matthew Hopkins, Witchfinder General, along with other historic victims. Raya's social worker and witch mentor Bryony goes back to try to save them from the gallows. But returning to present day London remains out of reach. With Raya's powers still out of control they find themselves in 1645 Istanbul/Constantinople. There, life is more amazing than she ever dreamed. Can she stay? And at what cost?

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