The Golden Compass as written by Roald Dahl

Tue 26 Jun 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal. | Posted by: Gavin

Here ahead of next month’s publication are pictures of the first edition of John Schoffstall’s debut novel, Half-Witch. The world is close but not quite this one. A young girl — who talks to god . . . and gets answers — and a witch are forced by circumstances into companionship. This is how Lauren at Elliott Bay described it

“In a Europe where goblins coexist with the literal (but unhelpful) Holy Trinity, Lizbet is sucked into a magical quest with only the surly witch-girl Strix as a companion. Like all great children’s books, Half-Witch is not afraid to put the big stuff on the page: they match wits with the Pope of Storms and corpse-eating earth-witches, and also with human violence and cruelty. An edge-of-your-seat adventure about friendship, trust, and what it means to be changed by someone, Half-Witch is like The Golden Compass as written by Roald Dahl.”