She is just beginning to find the kind of kinship she feared would never be an option for someone like her – someone different – when it turns out there are still more layers of secrets than she’d realized. Nowhere House turns out to be magical in many ways for Mika, though. Three little witches in one space should be very dangerous indeed, especially because (like young skunks!) they’re not yet in full control of their powers. Mika struggles to balance her own strong desire for companionship, community, even family, and her passion for her work, with her grudging respect for Primrose’s Rules. So she’s alarmed to be caught out by a strange offer to tutor three young witches at a mysterious estate called Nowhere House. As a relief valve for her enthusiasm for witchiness, she releases videos on her YouTube channel in which she brews potions and casts spells: it’s not meant to be taken seriously, of course. Primrose is the keeper of the Rules for witches: in a nutshell, witches live in secret and in minimal contact with one another, because witches together mean too much magical dangerously combining in small spaces. She was raised by a quickly-turning-over series of tutors and nannies, who were in turn employed by an elder witch named Primrose. In the opening pages we meet Mika Moon, a young Indian-born witch living in modern-day England. I no longer remember where I got this recommendation, but it was a *great* one.
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