Ivy is searching desperately for her mother, a young, feisty girl always having to fend for herself after being raised in care and foster homes.
Now she thinks she has found her on Bardsey Island in Wales.
But when she gets there her mother is terrified and wants her to leave.
She warns her to stay away for her own safety.
Now it's too late, Ivy is the focus of something evil from the past that has been searching for her in the present.
Her mam thought it was the witches around the island disguised as cormorants but the truth is Merlin from Arthurian legend wants Ivy for his own.
And when he captures Ivy's mam she has to save her but she is up against an implacable foe and has to join forces with the island witches.
A really inventive novel and I liked Ivy and Tom, the only thing I wish is that the ending hadn't been so abrupt and that loose ends had been tied up.
I felt as a reader I was left with questions.
Now she thinks she has found her on Bardsey Island in Wales.
But when she gets there her mother is terrified and wants her to leave.
She warns her to stay away for her own safety.
Now it's too late, Ivy is the focus of something evil from the past that has been searching for her in the present.
Her mam thought it was the witches around the island disguised as cormorants but the truth is Merlin from Arthurian legend wants Ivy for his own.
And when he captures Ivy's mam she has to save her but she is up against an implacable foe and has to join forces with the island witches.
A really inventive novel and I liked Ivy and Tom, the only thing I wish is that the ending hadn't been so abrupt and that loose ends had been tied up.
I felt as a reader I was left with questions.