A Witch in Time
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The photograph on our cover by Sue Wilks is taken from Enough is Too Much Already, a new book by Jan Mark to be published as a Bodley Head Paperback Original in April (0 370 31094 2. £2.95). We are grateful to The Bodley Head for help in using this.
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Illustrated by P J Lynch
Clever time shifting and some tense passages in this story of a contemporary girl who befriends a 500-year-old girl pursued as a witch. A loving relationship between the two is well depicted, and there's some perceptive insight into an age which didn't mind frightening children to rid adults of their irrational (to us) fears to the unknown. The author has a televisual knack of writing quick-moving scenes. I'll read this with eights to elevens, and lead them on to Penelope Lively's more sophisticated 'time' novels.
