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The witch Sycorax, whose death precedes the action of Shakespeare's The Tempest, is reimagined in Hetherington's (A Girl Made of Air) novel about her life before she became the mistress of a magical island. Sycorax grows up loved by her parents and feared by the nearby town because of magical gifts she doesn't understand. That uneasy balance is upset by her parents' death and her growing illness. When the go...Log In or Sign Up to Read More