I’ve read a few quite heavy books recently, and this lovely novella by Ben Aaronovitch was just what I needed to re-orientate myself to a happier reading place. Abigale is a teenaged black girl in London who is learning about magic from Nightingale and The Folly, but strikes out on her own to solve a mystery of missing children and is helped by an army of talking foxes. I loved how she uses spatterings of young people (possibly specifically young black Londoners, I’m not sure) words and phrases and that Ben Aaronovitch gives humorous definitions of them in footnotes – I felt I was learning a new language. It’s a very enjoyable urban fantasy story.
Sarah Wray Writer 