As the youngest, Kat feels excluded from serious conversations and the three of them constantly bicker and squabble, there’s a real sense of love and devotion between them all as well as the exasperation. Particularly good is the portrayal of Kat’s relationship with her sisters. Her growing discovery of her magical powers and the truth about her mother is well depicted while her encounters with certain members of the Order never quite go the way you expect. Kat is a wonderful character – smart, spirited, determined and resolute – she wants the best for her family and will do anything to save them. Stephanie Burgis’s debut novel is a charming mix of adventure, highwaymen, magic and spirited heroines – a mix of Diana Wynn Jones and Jane Austen. As Kat sets about trying to save her family, she learns more about her real mother’s magical heritage and in particular an ancient and secretive magical Order that seeks to claim her for her own. Kat and her middle sister, Angeline, will do anything to stop the wedding from happening and both are prepared to use an inheritance from their mother to do it – magic. Unfortunately Sir Neville is 20 years older than Elissa and has an unsavoury reputation of his own, thanks to the mysterious death of his first wife.
Kat’s step-mother has a solution - marry Elissa off to Sir Neville Collingwood, one of the wealthiest men in England. There is little prospect of Mr Stephenson, a respectable vicar, of restoring the family’s position as his own reputation was damaged by the fact that his first wife – Kat’s mother – was a notorious and flagrant witch. Eldest son, Charles, has gambled away the family’s fortune and does little but sit in his room since being sent down from Oxford University for bad behaviour. The Stephenson family stands on the verge of ruin. Her eldest sister, Elissa, drags her back before she even gets to the bottom of the garden. 12-year-old Kat Stephenson has chopped off her hair, put on boy’s clothing and is running away from home to save her family’s fortune. In the first thrilling instalment of The Unladylike Adventures of Kat Stephenson, Kat sets out to win her older siblings their true loves, battling highwaymen, sinister aristocrats, wild magic and even ghosts along the way.
Kat’s father may be a respectable vicar, but her late mother was a notorious witch, her brother has gambled the family into debt, and Kat herself is the newest target of an ancient and secretive magical Order. At twelve years old, any proper young lady should be sitting quietly at home, practising her embroidery, learning French and keeping her opinions to herself.īut Kat Stephenson is no ordinary young lady.
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