The first volume of an inventive, warm and very contemporary fantasy duology: a story of witches that renews the genre.

When fifteen-year-old Nettle looks back at her childhood, the scene she always remembers is her sitting on Aunt Viv's sofa between her two sisters: Thorn, a preteen as brilliant as she was contradictory, an endless source of slammed doors, who claimed 90% of their witch mother's attention, and little Bramble, who had her own way of occupying the remaining 10%. That was when everything went haywire. That was when Nettle made a serious mistake, which paved the way for for graver problems.