High on the cliffs near Dover the Silver family is reeling from the loss of Lily mother of twins Eliot & Miranda & beloved wife of Luc Miranda misses her with particular intensity Their mazy capricious house belonged to her mother's ancestors & to Miranda newly attuned to spirits newly hungry for chalk it seems they have never left Forcing apples to grow in winter revealing & concealing secret floors the house is fiercely possessive of young Miranda Joining voices with her brother & her best friend Ore it tells her story haunting in every sense White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi is a spine-tingling tribute to the power of magic myth & memory Miri I conjure you