![]() ![]() The ritual involves cups and coins, and a journey into a psychic underworld and out again. To become a witch, Laura undergoes a magic ritual, led by the mother and grandmother of a boy at school, Sorenson Carlisle, who is in love with her. It’s the story of Laura, who becomes a witch in order to save her little brother from a lemure, an ancient Roman vampire that has fastened on his life-force through a magic stamp. When I was a teenager, I fell upon The Changeover: a Supernatural Romance, perhaps her best known novel for young adults. ![]() But more than quantity was the quality of her work, which has an underlying intellectual rigour and imaginative verve. ![]() She wrote poems, picture books, plays, songs, stories, essays and novels, and had over 100 titles to her name. Her work had a variety and panache that made it stand out from many a crowd. For many years, Margaret Mahy was New Zealand’s best known and most celebrated children’s writer. ![]()
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