About the Book
A stunning, magical debut. An international sensation.
In modern-day England, witches live alongside humans: White witches, who
are good; Black witches, who are evil; and fifteen-year-old Nathan, who
is both. Nathan’s father is the world’s most powerful and cruel Black
witch, and his mother is dead. He is hunted from all sides. Trapped in a cage, beaten and handcuffed, Nathan must escape before his sixteenth
birthday, at which point he will receive three gifts from his father and come into his own as a witch — or else he will die. But how can Nathan
find his father when his every action is tracked, when there is no one
safe to trust — not even family, not even the girl he loves?
In the tradition of Patrick Ness and Markus Zusak, Half Bad is a gripping tale of alienation and the indomitable will to survive, a story that will
grab hold of you and not let go until the very last page.
