When it is discovered that an aristocratic young woman has magic powers, she is sent away to school, where she joins a group of young magicians using their powers to protect England.

"A debut novel about an adolescent boy's spiritual and sexual crisis at a 1926 British boarding school"-- At St. Stephen's Academy, the students are on the verge of revolt. While the younger boys plot an insurrection, the older ones are preoccupied with sneaking out-of-bounds, thrashing each other, tearing each other's clothes off-- or some combination of the three. Morgan Wilberforce, for one, can't take it any longer. When an accident at the boarding...

The first book of Jenny Colgan's delightful new four-part series, set at a charming English boarding school on the sea. Maggie went to the window and opened it wide, inhaling the lovely salt air off the sea. Why had she never lived by the sea before? Why had she always looked out on housing estates and not the little white hulls of trawlers bobbing off in the distance? It's gloriously sunny in Cornwall as the school year starts at the little boarding...