Silas and Sarah, his wife, decide to raise the baby Silas found as if she were the baby they expected. She is upset because Septimus was stillborn. Just as Silas reaches home, the midwife frantically runs out of the building carrying a shape wrapped in cloth. She says that he must say silent about the baby he found, and raise her as if she was his biological daughter. Before he reaches his house, Marcia Overstrand, the ExtraOrdinary Wizard who presides over the wizard community, intercepts him. Confident that he can take in another child, he decides to bring her home.

With his extrasensory powers, he hears a heartbeat in the snow and uncovers an abandoned baby girl with violet irises. At the beginning of the novel, Silas Heap is walking home after a winter storm, anticipating the birth of his seventh son, Septimus. The book is known for its use of fantasy, creative vocabulary, and character development, which render it an accessible coming-of-age story.

In the course of defeating those forces, it’s revealed that the boy is Silas’s son, Septimus. Silas and another wizard named Marcia later learn of a boy Jenna’s age who is being pursued by evil forces. Believing that Septimus died at birth, his father Silas raises an orphan baby, Jenna, in his place. The first book in the Septimus Heap series, it concerns the origin story of its overarching protagonist, Septimus Heap. It does not include books that were only illustrated by her.Magyk is a 2005 work of fantasy written by English author Angie Sage. The following is a list of books written by Angie Sage. 1981: The Nightmare Song - from Iolanthe by Gilbert and Sullivan.Her first novel was the first in her Septimus Heap series: Magyk. She began to study medicine, but moved instead to the Art School in Leicester to study graphic design and illustration, using these skills to begin illustrating books.

She tells how her publisher father brought home blank books, and she would write and illustrate her own stories in these. Angie Sage (born 20 June 1952) is an English author of children's literature, including the Septimus Heap series, the TodHunter Moon trilogy, and the Araminta Spook series ( Araminta Spookie, in the United States).Īccording to her publisher's biography, Sage grew up in the Thames Valley, London and Kent.

Magyk by angie sage