When Natasha moves to a new house, she discovers a statue of a fairy in her
garden beneath a huge menacing fir tree, which Natasha is sure is a witch.
Gradually, with the help of a local boy, she unravels an ancient story that
fairies stole the witchs baby and as revenge she turned a fairy to stone.

Julia Jarman has written over 80 books for children. She lives near Bedford
with her husband and has three grown-up children. She has been a schoolteacher
and journalist but she now devotes a lot of time to school and library visits
to talk to children about writing.