'When I was nine years old, I hid under a table and heard my sister kill a king.' So begins a chilling tale of magic and murder in the late 13th century. Meg, a Viking's daughter, with her servant lad Peem and the boy she's betrothed to marry, hare-lipped Davie Spens, struggle in love and concern to save little Margaret, grand-daughter of the dead King Alexander III, called the Maid of Norway, from Lady Marjorie de Brus, who is ruthlessly clearing the way for her son Robert to become the next king - with the help of Meg's sister, a powerful witch.

(Scottish Arts Council Award, 1986; Federation of Children's Book Groups - Best 100 Books, 1986; New York Libraries - Best 100 Children's Books, 1986)

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