No one is quite sure what is going on, but Merianne's younger brother Joe is sent to serve as a boot-boy/spy in Chrestomanci castle (if Chrestomanci finds about the witches, there will be no end of trouble), and Merianne seems fated to spend summer vacation running around trying to follow the Grammar's cryptic utterances and keep control of her cat - who is surprisingly magical. The story starts with with a visit from the witches from the neighboring village, who have an unexplained but quite violent spat with Gammer, leaving the house a mess, and Gammer speaking in riddles. The next Gammer will be Marianne Pinhoe, a young girl about Cat's age. It is controlled by the Pinhoe clan, which is ruled by the Gammer, an inherited post passed down through the female line. However it starts by introducing a new cast, the townsfolk in the nearby town of Ulverscote, which is full of illegal witchcraft. The Pinhoe Egg picks up about a year after Charmed Life leaves off, and is in part the further adventures of Cat and Chrestomanci and the other castle folk. This is a good book, but it is not a very good entry point into the series, so if you have not read the other Chrestomanci books you should probably go read about Charmed Life or The Lives of Christopher Chant, either of which will provide a good introduction to the world of Chrestomanci. This is the last book in Diana Wynne Jones's Chrestomanci series.
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