Wild Talent

*Shortlisted for the 2009 Sunburst Award for Literature of the Fantastic for Young Adult Literature

Wild Talent is the strange tale of Jeannie Guthrie, a sixteen-year-old Scottish farm worker who possesses a frightening talent. Believing that she has unintentionally killed her ne'er-do-well cousin, her fear of being sentenced as a witch propels her to flee her home to London. There, Guthrie is befriended by the free-spirited and adventurous Alexandra David, and introduced to Madame Helena Blavatsky's famous salon where she begins to understand the source of her strange powers.