AN Oakpark woman has just released a children’s book for sale on Amazon.

Ann Marie O’Doherty is now living in Waterford and is a freelance journalist/blogger with over eight years experience in childcare.

She has written for Maternity and Infant magazine, Mums & Tots magazine and eumom.ie but now turns her attention to fiction.

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Her new book, ‘Witches, Wizards & Winch-Feather Horses’ is aimed at 10 to 18 year olds and tells the story of Isabella, a 12 year old girl.

It is described as thus on Amazon…”Isabella thought she was just a normal 12 year old girl…until the day she found out that she wasn’t. Now she must leave her old life behind and start again in a dark, dusty house hidden far up in the mountains. F

or company she has her parents and a cranky old Wizard sent to help her adjust to her new life. But someone isn’t happy that Isabella is the first girl born with magical powers for many centuries and now Izzy must face unknown enemies as well as strange new friends.

How will Izzy cope with the magical turn her life has taken? Does she even want to be a witch? And what exactly is a Winch-Feather Horse?” The book is available on Amazon by clicking here