The charming, cosy tale about a very magical but slightly naughty witch, by bestselling author of BUTTER, Asako Yuzuki.

MARI AND THE UNWONDERFUL WITCH follows Mari, an eleven-year-old witch who lives with her two mothers, loves food and fashion, but is less keen than she ought to be on using her magic to help others.

In fact, when she breaks the golden rule that ‘you can’t use magic for yourself’, causing a giant-doughnut-sized catastrophe at her school, she’s in more trouble than ever before..

For fans of KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE by Eiko Kadano and THE HATMAKERS series by Tamzin Merchant.

Asako Yuzuki was born in Tokyo in 1981. She won the All Yomimono Award for New Writers for her story, Forget Me, Not Blue, which appeared in her debut, Shuuten No Anoko, published in 2010.

She won the Yamamoto Shugoro Award in 2015 for Nile Perch No Joshikai. She has been nominated multiple times for the Naoko Prize, and her novels have been adapted for television, radio and film.