![]() ![]() Laura Chant has one of her "warnings", a premonition that something is about to happen, but is forced to ignore it and go to school as usual. ![]() ![]() In some respects a coming-of-age story, it is also an unconventional romance between an aloof and difficult boy who happens to be a male witch and a strong-willed, psychically sensitive schoolgirl. It has a fairy-tale plot, with a devoted sister risking her life to save her bewitched brother. The Changeover is set in a fairly new suburb of Christchurch called Gardendale Mahy had renamed the suburb of Bishopdale for her book. WorldCat reports that The Changeover is Mahy's novel most widely held in participating libraries, second among all her works behind a picture book collaboration, The Seven Chinese Brothers (1989). Thus she became the fourth writer with two such honours (of seven through 2012), having won the 1982 Medal for The Haunting. Mahy and The Changeover won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. It is set in Christchurch in the author's native New Zealand. The Changeover: a Supernatural Romance is a low fantasy novel for young adults by Margaret Mahy, published in 1984 by J. M. ![]()
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