The Pinhoe Egg (Chrestomanci) - Diana Wynne Jones

...nine-life enchanter is living in the Chrestomanci castle with the Chrestomanci family and is continuing to study, explore and recognise the nature of his own magic. In this, he gets help not only from his formal tutors and other members of the magical family and the Castle staff, but also from several unusual and unexpected characters and creatures including an untameable horse, an old unicorn and a creature that hatches from the large purple egg ...
...The main plotline of "The Pinhoe Egg", however, concerns the villages and countryside that surround the Chrestomanci Castle. They are inhabited by some very old and very secretive clans of witchcraft-possessing people who have been successfully keeping themselves out of Chrestomanci's sight and doing their own thing, the thing they have always done, for several hundreds of years. When an old and powerful witch heading one of the clans loses her mind ...

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