Being different can be dangerous. Moving to live with her aunt, Wilde is desperate to fit in at her new school. But in a fierce heatwave, during rehearsals for a school play telling the legend of a witch called Winter, ‘The Witch’ starts leaving pupils frightening letters cursing them. Can Wilde find out what’s happening before everyone blames her? Or will she always be the outsider?
ELOISE WILLIAMS grew up in Llantrisant and lives in West Wales, very close to the sea. Having studied Drama, she went on to work as an actor for over ten years before studying for a Masters in Creative Writing at Swansea University. She was chosen to be the first Children’s Laureate Wales in September 2019. Wilde is her fourth book with Firefly Press.