This novel is not only a fairy tale, but also a poem about life on this wonderful Earth and about people who value what this life gives them.
In the country of Mle. Where the steep slopes of the Ovcepik Mountains give way to the green hills of the foothills, there is the land of Mle. And in this land lives one little girl named Tiffany Bolit, with an unusual way of thinking.
She can become a powerful witch. But in Mle, witches are not liked. There are none in this country at all—because the local Baron ordered all witches to be drowned.
And yet… How many nine-year-old witch girls are there in the world who have neither a magic wand nor a broom, but do have brains, willpower, determination, and the ability to wake up in time and see the world the way it really is? Tiffany doesn’t protect the whole planet—only the Mle Plains, but it is truly her world, beyond which she has never been.
These are hills on which her silent grandmother roamed all her life with a sheep flock and two shepherd dogs. This is the Earth-Under-Wave, which once was the bottom of an ancient sea… It’s a very small world, yet even it must have its own witch: to guard the borders from nightmare creatures and make sure that no one on a winter night drives an old woman out into the street, suspecting her of witchcraft.