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I have decided to change the name and function of this group again. It is now called Magic Mirabelle and the Riddle of Night Opium Review and Discussion Group. This means that the main aim of this group will be for members to post Reviews about my book as well as ANY and ALL other books in the Fantasy tradition and to discuss those books with other members.

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The Mother of Fairytales with her Fairies THE WISH, THE WISHER AND THE WISHED FOR!!!!!! The Nursery of the Baby is filled with his Angels and Fairies And when Mirabelle wishes for her Angels to play with Baby's Angels That's when all sorts of Magic begins MIRABELLE - The central character in our book is the apprentice Witch from East Finchley London, Mirabelle Sommerfield. After discovering a very mysterious Riddle in her mother's attic, Mirabelle embarks upon many wonderful adventures with the Magican Night Opium, his Fairy Apricot Lantern, Lady Nightshade and the Father of Wishes. Along with her mother, little brother and her friends Lucy and Freddy, each of these enchanted beings plays a central role in her Rite of Passage and eventual Initation into Magic and the Wisdom of the Craft. BABY -.Mirabelle's baby brother is a very special character, and just as his mother is giving birth to him at the local hospital, Mirabelle is busy bringing him to the Sommerfield home from the Neverland as the seventh member of Peter Pan’s band of Lost Boys. (In the original story there are only six Lost Boys!) Not long after his arrival, Mirabelle wishes for his angels and hers to play together. And it is from that time that Mirabelle’s adventures first begin. Baby also secretly accompanies Mirabelle up the Glass Slipper Staircase to the Land of Wishes, where he becomes the Father of Wishes’ apprentice in Gold-making and entomology. Later on he becomes Freddy’s partner in the Peacocks team during the first Magical Battle in the Dungeons of Lethe Game. MAMA - (Vivienne Sommerfield). Mama's role in the book is mostly advisory. For example, it is her who prompts Mirabelle to wish for her angels to play with Baby’s angels. Mama also tries to help Mirabelle solve the Riddle, and after her 13th birthday, she contacts Grandma Selena to see if she can help solve Mirabelle’s Night Opium and Fairy problem. After Mirabelle’s best friend Lucy adopts Vivienne as her mother during the Halloween Party, she and Lucy team up as partners for the Amorinas team during the D.O.L. Game. PAPA - (Lindsey Sommerfield). Mirabelle’s father has a very important job in the Foreign Office in Whitehall. Despite the fact that he is mentioned on several occassions in the book, his importance is minimal and he never actually appears in the narrative! GRANDMA - (Selena Hatfield) - Mirabelle’s Grandmother is from the Hatfield side of the family. She is a free-spirited Witch from Glastonbury who first introduces Mirabelle into the mysteries of the Craft. Grandma also introduces the Dungeons of Lethe Game to Mirabelle, and places her and the others into their respective teams of Tulips, Amorinas and Peacocks. These three teams are allied against the Mandrake team which is headed by Grandma Selena herself. Grandma is a complex personality. She has a less than congenial relationship with Mirabelle’s mother. And, although she does spark Mirabelle’s initial interest in the Craft, during the D.O.L. Game their relationship dramatically alters! LUCY - Her full name is Annabelle Lucinda Flavius and when she arrives as a new student at the local high school with her brother Freddy, she immediately befriends Mirabelle and together the two girls become the school’s authority on Halloween and other magical matters. During the Halloween party, she adopts Mirabelle’s mother and Baby. As part of the Amorinas team, she plays a very important role in the second of the Magical Battles. And, with her irresisitible charm and charisma, she becomes one of the central players in the Soho Theatre experience, where her relationship with her dear friend Mirabelle takes an unexpected and dramatic turn. FREDDY - His full name is Frederic Mark Leopold Flavius. Along with being a Hermetic Magician, Freddy is also a poet and the founder of the Blue Flower Fellowship of Poets (or the B.F.F.) During the Halloween Party he adds a bit of spice to the meeting by reading his dramatic Thunder Man poem. He joins up with Baby in the Peacocks Team during the First Magical Battle. And it is through his poem the Londres Witch that both Lucy and Mirabelle begin their dramatic careers in the London Theatre circuit. . MELISANDE TREACHEROUS - Melisande is Freddy’s classmate and during the Halloween Party she and Mirabelle become bitter rivals for his affections. Melisande later replaces Baby as Mirabelle's partner on the Tulips team and, with some enthusiasm, she follows her into Lady Nightshadow’s grusome Parlour. There she lives up to her Treacherous nature by helping orchestrate several grisly scenarios for Mirabelle with the aid of her ghastly Mistress. Indeed, even though it appears that Melisande has been permanently removed from the D.O.L. Game, during the third and last Magical Battle she makes a surprising and very sinister appearance. GUY HARRINGTON - Artistic Director of the Soho Theatre Company. During the second Blue Flower Fellowship of poets meeting, Freddy recites his Londres Witch poem and Guy recognises his creative Genius along with the dramatic skills of Lucy and Mirabelle. How their mutual venture into experimental theatre ends up is very bizarre and amusing. THE MAGICAL BEINGS IN THE STORY APRICOT LANTERN - The first of three Fairy Queens. She first appears with the Wizard Night Opium and both he and his fairy capture Mirabelle's heart and play a central part in Mirabelle's early magical adventures. NIGHT OPIUM - Elf Sorceror and apprentice of the Father of Wishes. After placing the Riddle in the dragon chest for Mirabelle to find, he visits her with the desire to make her his apprentice. And to impress the young witch, he enlists his Fairy to perform a magic trick for her. He doesn't realize that the Fairy is a Young Queen and has a thousand times more Magic at her disposal than he does. THE FATHER OF WISHES - The Head of the Fraternity of Hermetic Goldmakers and the Unofficial King of Fairyland. He works in close cooperation with the Mother of Fairytales and teaches Mirabelle some lessons in Hermetic Wisdom. He also apprentices Baby with the intention of making him a great Wizard and entomologist like himself. LADY NIGHTSHADOW - Or the Nightshade Fairy. She is the second of the Fairy Queens Mirabelle is destined to meet. And with her irresistible beauty she lures Mirabelle into her ghastly Nightshade Parlour. Eventually, after several gruelling ordeals with her and her Djinn, Mirabelle finds her way out of her clutches and prepares herself for the three Magical Battles which must take place before the conclusion of the D.O.L. Game. THE FAIRY OF PROVIDENCE - She is also known as the Matron and the Mother of Fairytales. She is the third and last Fairy Queen which Mirabelle is destined to meet, before completing her Initiation into the Wisdom of the Craft. Without her Wisdom and Magic it will not be possible for her and her allies to defeat the forces of darkness in the Dungeons of Lethe Game. SUMUKHI -The Chief of the Star Babies. In the start of the book, Sumukhi and the Star Babies help bring BABY from the Star Nursery and they introduce Mirabelle to the Dungeons of Lethe Game in her dreams. SHIMBA -The fluffy white Bichon Havanesse who is Baby’s pet in the Land of Wishes and travels back home to London with him to celebrate Mirabelle’s 16th birthday. THE BLACK FAIRY - Maleficando. She is the General of Lady Nightshadow’s troops during the first of the Magical Battles in the D.O.L. Game. THE WISHING CATS - A particularly malicious type of creature that appears to challenge Mirabelle and Lucy during the second Magical Battle. LADY NIGHTSHADOW’S DJINN - In the Goldmaking Parlour of the Nightshade Fairy are several Goldmaking engines. Inside these engines reside several wicked and very powerful Djinn. These assist their Mistress in making her Tincture of Morphic Snuff, Prologue - Mirabelle is a 12 1/2 year old girl from East Finchley London, who lives in a fantasy world of fairytales and adventure stories like Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan. Her Grandma is also a Witch and she tells Mirabelle that she has the "gift," and promises to one day make her an apprentice Witch. Her life undergoes a dramatic change, however, with the birth of her baby brother. Chapters One and Two - The birth of the new Baby turns the household upside down and at first Mirabelle is annoyed by this, but she grows very fond of him, after she begins telling him fairy-stories. After that, she makes a wish for his angels and hers to play together. The wish appears to come true because very soon afterwards, she finds an old wooden box in the attic with dragon carvings on it. Inside the dragon box is a very mysterious and enigmatic riddle. Mirabelle shows the riddle to her mother but neither her nor Mirabelle can solve it.. Chapter Three - While thinking of the Riddle, Mirabelle falls to sleep and wakes up to discover that a one foot one fairy in a golden cage has materialised in her bedroom. Her name is Apricot Lantern and she is the property of a Wizard called Night Opium, who now tells Mirabelle that he will make her his apprentice, along with showing her a wonderful trick of making gold with his pet fairy. As the Magician cranks up her cage he belts the cage over and over with his wand. This makes the Fairy totally terrified and she crumples up whimpering on the floor of the cage. But when she recovers her strength, she becomes very sassy and angry, promising both Mirabelle and her new friend that she will get her revenge on them for their gross violation of the unalienable rights of fairies! Chapters Four to Six - The Magician’s trick now totally backfires as the cunning fairy enchants them both with a powerful dose of her fairy glamour. Under her spell, Mirabelle splits in half like an apple. One half of her accompanies the Magician to his enchanted garden in the Land of Wishes. And the other half remains with the fairy in her bedroom. The fairy begs, threatens, promises and cajoles Mirabelle into freeing her from her cage. The moment she leaves the cage she transforms into a full-blown Fairy Queen, taking over the Wizard's enchanted garden, along with all of the Gold and Wishes meant for Mirabelle. Finally, Mirabelle’s little brother dampens the Fairy’s enthusiasm by bringing the dragons on his sister’s magic box to life. When the dragons jump all over the fairy’s frock, she leaps out of it in terror, and all the flowers from her dress fall into Mirabelle's magic box. When Mirabelle wakes up the next morning the flowers are still there with a note from the fairy apologising and congratulating Mirabelle on her 13th birthday. Chapter Seven to Nine - Pressed by her mother, Mirabelle eventually tells her everything that went on with the Fairy and Night Opium. Mama immediately sends an SOS to Grandma. In the meantime, Mirabelle meets two new friends at school, Freddy and Lucy. With Lucy’s help she becomes the school’s authority on Witchcraft and Magic. And, inspired by her new found popularity, Mirabelle throws a Halloween party. Along with Halloween decorations, costumes and music, special games are arranged like “Faery and Vampyre.” and a Halloween Poetry Meeting. When Freddy reads his poem about the Initation of a young girl into the mysteries of Witchcraft, called “Thunder Man comes soon,” the weather suddenly becomes very violent, with rain and lightning and thunder crashing all around the house. Most of the guests want him to stop reading, but Mirabelle and Mama insist that he finishes the poem.
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