The Broken Spell

Book Description

Grace and her four best friends, Adie, Rachel, Jenny and Una are being trained to be bona fide witches. But their tutors, Mrs Quinlan and Ms Lemon, aren’t keen to show them any practical magic. Instead, the girls spend the entire summer buried in books and studying weeds. That is until the new school year starts, and the glamorous Ms Gold joins Ms Lemon on the faculty, the missing member of Mrs Quinlan and Ms Lemon’s broken coven; she is eager to teach the girls real witchcraft. In the hope of mending their teachers’ damaged friendships, the girls cast a spell to travel back to the 1970s. However, the spell goes awry, and the girls bounce back and forth in time, out of control.

Review
Erika McGann’s first book The Demon Notebook attracted good reviews and was a highly entertaining and convincing portrait of girls’ friendship against a background of spells and magic — Books for Keeps In this the sequel, she takes the action and moves it up a notch so that although there’s still the same snappy dialogue and a good many laughs, this feels a much darker read — Books for Keeps McGann clearly knows her demonology, and there are some genuinely scary scenes in the book — Books for Keeps a very exciting read that offers young readers something to think about as well as something to make them jump — Books for Keeps magical mirth and mayhem … a very readable tale for girls aged 10+ — Evening Echo lightly humorous story about friendship — parentsintouch.co.uk

About the Author
Erika McGann grew up in Drogheda and now lives in Dublin. She has a respectable job, very normal friends and rarely dabbles in witchcraft. She loves writing stories that are autobiographical. Sort of.