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Nightshade

Witchcraft is a lot tougher than it looks.

It's not like on the television, where witches airily wave their hands about and chairs start flying around the room. In fact, it's a lot of hard work, sometimes it's even boring. My introduction to witchcraft took place in Alyce Nightingale's kitchen, in the summer leading up to my senior year.

Not that Alyce's kitchen looked like any other old lady's kitchen I'd ever seen. But then, Alyce was not your average old lady. She was eighty-one and wore her long, grey hair decorated with coloured glitter hairclips. She needed help getting in and out of an armchair, but once she was up she could dance little pirouettes while she sang old jazz songs. Even though her memory was bad when it came to names and birthdays, she was sharp as a tack when I did something wrong. On the day the trouble started, I was sitting on her kitchen floor in front of an enormous pantry, sorting jars of dried herbs and flowers, while she cooed down the phone to her latest boyfriend, Dennis, who was sixty-two and smitten.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 190
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-14-300253-6
  • EAN
  • 9780143002536
  • Genres
  • fantasy, fiction, paranormal, romance
  • Release date
  • 2006