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I really enjoyed this book. The main character will stay with me for some time. There are lots of references to 70s science fiction, most of which went by me. This would have added to the reading experience, but this is a solid 4 for me, and maybe 4.5 as I think about it afterward. The main thing that strikes me about this one is that, even though it has fantasy aspects, this book and the people inside it seem very real and ring true.
This is an excellent novel set in a girl's boarding school in England, where Welsh teen Mori goes after the death of her twin sister. She feels very out-of-place in the very English school, without her Welsh relatives and the fairies that she is accustomed to near her home in Wales. She has been in a car accident, and cannot walk well, so she is a target for bullying at the school. She feels sad, lonely, and especially threatened by the magical power of her mother, whom she knows is a witch. She
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