7/8/2023 0 Comments The Familiars by Stacey Halls![]() The letter I had clutched in my fist, and I opened it once more to check I hadn’t imagined it, that I hadn’t drifted off in my chair and dreamed it up. But I did not stop until I reached the trees overlooking the lawns in front of the house. The lawn was wet with morning dew that soaked my favorite silk rose slippers, for in my haste I hadn’t thought to put on pattens. I left the house with the letter because I did not know what else to do. Stacey Halls was media editor at The Bookseller and books editor at .uk, and has also written for Psychologies, The Independent, and Fabulous magazine. ![]() She meets Alice, a witch, and their lives become intertwined. ![]() ![]() Against the backdrop of the 1612 Pendle Witch Trials, the novel follows Fleetwood Shuttleworth, desperate to produce an heir and to defy the prophecy that she'll die in childbirth. The following is from Stacey Halls' debut novel, The Familiars. ![]()
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