Olive’s letters
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The Stranger in the Lighthouse
You’ll never guess what. I am not the only witch in town! She looks awfully small, this other girl, with the fairytale name of Lucy Skylark. She’s a scruffy looking kid even when she’s at work – she got a job at Coastal Coffee before I did, but the kid is selling coffee like some everyday teenager. Continue reading
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Olive Framley’s Magical Year
I am glad you agreed to be my mentor. What a wonderful gift my Chinese Water Dragon was! I knew that I could never be a witch with a cat or an owl. Magic needs to be modernised. I have named my new familiar Firenze, after Florence, the beautiful city where I first realised I… Continue reading
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Olive Framley Entry 20, 3rd July.
Dear Talia, It’s been a trying couple of weeks. Daddy is furious about the whole Magical Reporter debacle and the fact that people are now asking him what he thinks he’s doing, sending his well-educated daughter to mess around with potions and spells, and I’ve had journalists and paparazzi following me all over the place.… Continue reading
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Olive Framley Entry 19, 26th June.
Dear Talia, Please entirely disregard the previous letter – I turned to despair prematurely and I have returned to Barkmouth a hero. Lucy wasn’t lost, she was invisible! It turned out the haunting wasn’t a ghost, it was an actual invisible man. A travelling salesman, of all things! Lucy had tried to talk to him,… Continue reading
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Olive Framley Entry 17, 19th June.
Lucy came by this morning with a letter from her mentor, Vera. She said that there’s been some strange activity – sounded like a haunting, or some sort of spirit infestation, at a pub. You absolutely cannot tell Daddy that we went there on a bus, Talia. Honestly, it rattled like Daddy’s old Land Rover,… Continue reading
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Olive Framley Entry 16, 13th June
I am pleased to report that “The Amazing Olive” was a success! True, there were one or two little swots who saw through some of the card trick. But they loved it when I made Maksym fly. Continue reading
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Olive Framley Entry 15, 9th June
Dear Talia, I needed some new clothes last week and so I took the train into Swalebeck, which has some more up-market shops, and I ended up spending what was left of my fortune-telling money on a new suit and some decent shoes. I still have my very paltry allowance, but of course now I… Continue reading
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Olive Framley Entry 14, 31st May.
Firenze did something he’s never done before… He brought Maksym with him on one of his magical portal journeys! Maksym didn’t even seem surprised – he’d spotted Firenze and followed him. He said that he’d told his father he’d gone to his friend’s to play, in the same block where he lives… but he’d snuck… Continue reading
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Olive Framley Entry 13, 30th May.
I saw Maksym again the other day! He was walking along by the cliffs with his father. They were some way ahead of me and his father was walking at a usual pace but Maksym kept darting back. I realised he was trying to practise making the rocks fly again. He didn’t notice me, being… Continue reading
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Olive Framley Entry 12, 27th May.
Focusing my powers away from divination feels cleansing at the moment. To thank Hatty for her gift, I decided to see if I could make the chores around the house a bit easier. I thought it would be good if I could make the hamper lighter to make picnics easier, and I realised that there… Continue reading
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