the_lirazel reviewed Wise Child by Monica Furlong (Doran, #1)
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5 stars
If I had read this at 10 or 11, I would have been obsessed with it. What a lovely, lovely book.
Mass Market Paperback, 240 pages
Published Nov. 18, 1989 by Alfred A. Knopf / Borozi Sprinters.
In a remote Scottish village, nine-year-old Wise Child is taken in by Juniper, a healer and sorceress. Then Wise Child’s mother, Maeve, a black witch, reappears. In choosing between Maeve and Juniper, Wise Child discovers the extent of her supernatural powers—and her true loyalties.
If I had read this at 10 or 11, I would have been obsessed with it. What a lovely, lovely book.