Synopsis: "In the seventeenth century a young boy, newly arrived to live with his grandfather on the channel island of Serq, befriends a wild and troubled girl whose aunt is determined that she become a witch." --summary, LC catalogue record of the 1st US ed. "Philip Hoskyns makes the mistake of falling in love with a witch's niece, and on the Channel Island of Serq, in the 17th century [... He] finds a clay figure tied with his own hair sacrificed to the pagan Grandmother Stone ..." --Kirkus Reviews (1974, above)