Witch Week
Diana Wynne Jones
This is my favourite of the Chrestomanci novels.
The story begins when a teacher finds a note saying ‘Someone in this class is a witch’.
Set in a boarding school in an alternate version of England where magic is illegal but magical ability is commonplace. The story is mainly told from the perspective of a couple of the school’s misfits, Nan Pilgrim and Charles Morgan.
When I first read this in the dim and distant past I really identified with Charles. What that says about me, I don’t know.
I’m not going to spoil the plot of the book, but fair to say it involves the discovery of magical ability, bullying, official stupidity and Chrestomanci turns up.
I unreservedly recommend this book, hell I recommend everything Diana Wynne Jones has ever written.