Overview

Alva only knows of the outside world through books, and none can tell her of the mysterious power she has within herself: the power to change reality. When soldiers from a faraway land march on her town in pursuit of a deserter, she flees the chaos and finds him, a man whose only desire is to reunite with his long lost family. This meeting sparks a journey into a world where magic hides in plain sight, its use granted only to a handful of girls and women called Practitioners. Can Alva find her place in mundane society as a curious little girl or in the unusual as a young Practitioner? Or is there no place left for her to call home? The Young Practitioner is E.M. Neftelberg's first novel - an exploration of a diverse and rich world, where the family one finds among the trials of life is forged into an unbreakable bond, and the most unexpected of our number can do incredible things - so long as they know to look within.