![]() She toddles out of Market Chipping, speaks kindly to a scarecrow, and finds a walking stick when she rescues a dog from some brambles. Since Sophie can’t tell anyone she’s under a spell, she decides to leave. At the bakery, Sophie is shocked: Lettie and Martha have switched places, and Martha insists that Fanny is exploiting Sophie.Ī few weeks later, a grand lady who turns out to be the evil Witch of the Waste enters the hat shop, inexplicably says she doesn’t appreciate competition, and curses Sophie to become a 90-year-old woman. The crowds are upsetting, and Sophie is terrified when a handsome man in a blue and silver suit offers to buy her a drink. Finally, on May Day, Sophie works up her courage to go visit Lettie. ![]() ![]() But Sophie grows increasingly shy and feels like an old lady, as she never has anyone to talk to. Sophie is good at sewing and trimming hats, and the hat shop is soon doing very well. Fairfax, the middle sister Lettie to be an apprentice at the local bakery, and takes Sophie on as an apprentice in the family hat shop. So it’s no surprise to Sophie when, after her father dies, her stepmother Fanny sends the youngest daughter Martha (who’s destined to be successful) to apprentice with the witch Mrs. ![]() In the magical land of Ingary, teenage Sophie knows she’s destined to fail in life because she’s the eldest of three children. ![]()
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