There, outcast and alone, she tempted fate by doing magic herself, in an attempt to find a circle of like-minded friends. Then her mother tried to bend the spirits to dark ends, and Mori was forced to confront her in a magical battle that left her crippled-and her twin sister dead.įleeing to her father whom she barely knew, Mori was sent to boarding school in England a place all but devoid of true magic. But her mind found freedom and promise in the science fiction novels that were her closest companions. As a child growing up in Wales, she played among the spirits who made their homes in industrial ruins. Raised by a half-mad mother who dabbled in magic, Morwenna Phelps found refuge in two worlds. Startling, unusual, and yet irresistibly readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment.
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