![]() Period English fantasy from the author of Snow White and Rose Red (1989), wherein young street waif Kim, a girl disguised as a boy, takes up with traveling magician Mairelon and his lugubrious coachman Hunch after she is paid by a toff to search Mairelon's wagon and is caught in the act. PW called this tale of an alternate Regency England, where a royal college of wizards flourishes and the government includes a minister of wizardry, "a delightful romp." Kim wonders how tough it could be faking a bit of hocus pocus.īut Mairelon isn't an act. ![]() ![]() Until he suggests she become his apprentice. When he catches her in the act, Kim thinks she's done for. He isn't like the other hucksters and swindlers that Kim is used to. Having grown up a waif in the dirty streets of London-disguised as a boy!-has schooled her in one hard lesson: steal from them before they steal from you.īut there is something odd about this magician. ![]() Kim isn't above a bit of breaking-and-entering. Kim doesn't hesitate when a stranger offers her a small fortune to break into the travelling magician's wagon in search of a silver bowl. ![]()
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