Tom doesn't know he is a demisprite - the child of a fairy and a
human - until he meets his three fairy godmothers. They've been
summoned to protect him, but they can't stop bickering, and two of
them are hardened criminals. Tom must survive their botched magic
spells, learn to fly and enter the dangerous Fairy Realm to save
his parents...
From the author of BESWITCHED: "One of the most enchanting, funny
and suspenseful stories to have been published for some time" THE
TIMES
Kate Saunders (May 1960 – April 2023) was the author of many books for adults and children. She won the Betty Trask Award and the Costa Children's Book Award and was twice shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Five Children on the Western Front and The Land of Neverendings.
She was also an actress and a journalist writing for the Sunday Times, Sunday Express, Daily Telegraph and Cosmopolitan, and has contributed to Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Start the Week and Kaleidoscope.