![]() Ninnoc/Juniper also spends part of this time with another (more congenial) doran named Angharad and her apprentice, Trewyn. ![]() Ninnoc finds life with Euny a harsh adjustment, having been raised in a nice warm palace full of people and food and stuff, but she learns-first self-sufficiency skills, like dressing herself and how to kill a pig, then, later, magic and herblore. Euny is a harsh, no-nonsense old woman who lives in poverty in a little hut on a hill in the middle of nowhere. When Ninnoc is in her early teens she is sent to live with her godmother Euny for a year and a day. Ninnoc exhibits signs of power at an early age-dowsing rods actually work for her (I found this kind of hilarious), and sometimes she can heal minor injuries (only other people's, though) by looking at or touching them. ![]() Juniper takes place in a small Cornish kingdom where Juniper-first known as Ninnoc-is a princess, the sole child and therefore heir of King Mark. The Wise Child books take place in mostly-pagan early-medieval Cornwall, which is awesome. It's a prequel to Wise Child, which I owned and read dozens if not hundreds of times, and which I still own and it's the story of how Wise Child's teacher Juniper became a doran-a witch, essentially. ![]() So far I have been reading some pretty short books this year! My latest was a reread of Monica Furlong's Juniper, which I got out of the library several times when I was younger. ![]()
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