Nineteenth-century England is not the place to be practising magic. But in this prim and proper world, twelve-year-old Kat Stephenson’s family is going to be ruined unless she takes matters into her own hands. Lucky then, that Kat has inherited her mother’s magical talents . . .

Winner of the Waverton Good Read Award 2011

Longlisted for the 2011 British Fantasy Awards

"An excellent book and as it is the first of trilogy, there is the promise of more reading pleasure to come." Thebookbag.co.uk