The Witch's Daughter Author:Nina Bawden The witch's daughter sat on a rock in the bay. She closed her eyes and flew with the gulls in the air; she turned and dived and felt the cold on her face. She flew in her mind; her body sat still on the rock. Her name was Perdita, which means lost. — Perdita lived on the Scottish island of Skua with her old foster mother, wh... more »o was housekeeper for a secretive man named Mr. Smith. She knew no one else, for the island children were afraid of her.
When the mainland steamer came in on its weekly trip, the witch's daughter watched covertly as two children appeared on deck, a fair-haired boy and a younger girl. Perdita caught her breath, for there was something about the girl that was different. Her mother called her Janey and the boy Tim. Perdita soon learned that they were brother and sister, and they had come with their parents to stay for the summer at Mr. Tarbutt's hotel.
Though Perdita's Powers told her that something new had come into her life, they didn't give her warning that everything would change -- that the day Janey and Tim set foot on Skua was the beginning of a dangerous adventure that would affect the future for everyone, including the witch's daughter.« less