Jessica Haggerthwaite: Witch Dispatcher by Emma Barnes

“A refreshing variation on the witches and wizards that now crowd children’s fiction”: The Sunday Times

Paperback (new edition with cover by Emma Chichester Clark)
ISBN: 978-1905537-30-3
Price: £6.99
Publication: August

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Imagine if your mother was a witch!
‘Jessica thought for the thousandth time it was a terrible nuisance having a witch for a mother.
Other people’s mothers had sensible hobbies. They did not go around pretending they could charm warts, or offer potions for ingrowing toe-nails.
Nor did they dress up in long black capes and practice incantations in the back garden!’
Jessica thinks she has the most embarrassing mother in the universe. At least she has always been able to keep her mother’s peculiar hobby a secret, but all that changes when Mrs. Haggerthwaite announces that she’s turning professional.
Jessica is determined to be a famous scientist one day and having a witch for a relative will do her no good at all. She becomes a “Witch Dispatcher” determined to thwart her mother’s plans…

Emma Barnes

Award-winning author, Emma Barnes, grew up in Edinburgh.

Her books have been translated into several languages, and broadcast on BBC Radio.She regularly visits schools, libraries and festivals, sharing her passion for books and reading.

Books by Emma Barnes:

How (Not) To Make Bad Children Good: (August 2011)

Jessica Haggerthwaite: Witch Dispatcher:(New edition: August 2011)