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Children's story about a talking witch's broomstick with a Downer Ending (or a Bittersweet Ending as the girl gets out okay).
Usual disclaimer: I read it a long time ago, so some details may be remembered wrong.
There was a broomstick who had escaped from a coven of evil witches and was hiding in the forest, he made friends with a local girl named either Tamsin or Tasmin who brought him food and water. Eventually the witches kidnapped her (possibly after she disregarded the broom's advice not to go and have a look at them) and tried to turn her into one of them and the broomstick made a Heroic Sacrifice to save her by dive-bombing the witches with rowan berries which are deadly to magical creatures. This scared off the witches but also killed the broom and the girl took his charred corpse home and kept him in her room trying to give him food and water again, much to the bafflement of her parents who knew nothing about the whole incident.
Probably written in the 70s, no later than the 80s, by an author who was probably British.