When Cassie runs away from her dreary boarding school, in search of her missing mother, she ends up in the magical village of Hedgely and discovers she comes from a family of witches - women who protect Britain from the denizens of Faerie, who are all too real and far more frightening than the story books suggest.

Step into the magical world of Hedgewitch, where the land of Faerie lies just beyond our own, in this enchanting new
series for children age 9+ and readers of Nevermoor, The Worst Witch and The Dark Is Rising.
Cassie Morgan has run away. After seven years spent waiting for her mother to return, she flees her dreary boarding
school and sets out to find her. But the world outside her school is full of hidden magic and children have been going
missing.
With the help of a talking cat and a flying broom, Cassie escapes to the enchanted village of Hedgely. There she will
begin her training in the practical skills of witchcraft with the Hedgewitch, who watches over the Hedge, the vast forest that
marks the border between England and Faerie.
Will Cassie discover the truth about her mother? Can she find the lost faery treasures before the wicked Erl King gets his
hands on them? And what will it take to save her new home - and Britain itself - from the shadowing magic of Faerie?
'There are only two sorts of fantasy story: the ones that feel fake and the ones that feel real. It's hard to explain the
difference but you know the real ones when you read them, and Hedgewitch is one of them' Philip Reeve