Young Adult Fantasy · Ages 12–14
Elderwitch
by Lucie Bowins
“You have always been so much trouble, Emeline.”
A whimsical and heartfelt fantasy, Elderwitch follows sixteen-year-old Emeline, the feisty daughter of a Norman baron, who knows her future is to marry the stranger her parents have chosen for her. That is, until the morning of her betrothal, when her younger brother is abducted by a terrifying elderwitch. To make things worse, her only hope of rescuing him is to join forces with Owain ap Hywel, a young half-Hazelwitch she is inexplicably drawn to… and the boy accused of her brother’s kidnapping.
As they journey from her home in the turbulent Welsh Marches of the 14th century to a world of fighting treewitches and mythical beasts, Emeline comes to realise that rescuing her brother will not be enough.
The only way for peace to be restored in both her own world and the world of the treewitches is to destroy the elderwitch for good.
“It tosses back its wild black hair, revealing the face of a woman, her wide, sneering mouth as red as her robe and huge, round eyes as deep and as dark as peat pits.”
“Neither you without me, nor I without you.”
- Genre
- Young Adult Fantasy
- Reading age
- Ages 12–14
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Cranthorpe Millner
- Release
- 27 October 2026
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