1950's Massachusetts: two very different young women attend Radcliffe College. Ava has grown up shut away from other people on an apple orchard, with her religious and controlling parents who don't want her to know her true self. And Lauren comes from a wealthy family and from a long line of wild women, but after …
In 1959, an orphan girl slips out of a revival tent and runs away from the sect who controls and crushes her life, unexpectedly finding her way to a house in the woods that's like something out of a fairytale. Sadly, she's soon taken back, but in 1965, and grown up, she flees her abusive …
Five witches live in Moonshyne Manor, a house on the edge of town, when an angry mob and some dark omens let the cat out of the bag that the men in town plan on condemning their home since they've been defaulting on payments and also, because everyone hates them because they're witches. They're only …
Continue reading The Witches of Moonshyne Manor by Bianca Marais
Brittany, 1741, the Romani clan Orchiere has not produced a witch in generations, and make their living telling fake fortunes, amongst other things. As Ursule comes of age, she finds that the spark of magic is alive in her, in the whispers of her ancestors and an old family grimoire. Forging her own path, she …
Continue reading The Great Witch of Brittany by Louisa Morgan
I love witchy reads, and most especially Practical Magic. Or anything by Alice Hoffman, honestly. Her way of writing takes the everyday and the fairytale and blends them. After all, fairytales were created to help us navigate life and avoid danger. I love how she is able to take you on a journey with her …
Three estranged sisters are reunited in a strange city when one of them reads out a charm found in a library book. Drawn together, they each catch a glimpse of a tower that they have only heard of in stories. A tower where three powerful witches may have escaped with the last of the worlds …
Continue reading The Once And Future Witches by Alix E Harrow
Lee is reluctant to head off to college at Smith and on arriving immediately feels like an outsider as though everyone hates her. After being date raped by another student called Tripp, she finds no one believes her and she can get no help. That is until she is accepted into a class on Gender, …
I'm so excited to talk about this book with you. Because if you're reading this, you're probably an Alice Hoffman/Practical Magic fan like me, and you're awaiting the new book Magic Lessons, about Maria Owens, the matriarch of the Owens family from Practical Magic, the one who was the first in a long line of …
Lis London is starting a new life. Leaving behind a school where she's been bullied and unhappy, she's moving from Wales to Yorkshire to live with her sister. She's bought all new clothes, her sisters home is beautiful, and she soon finds herself taken under the wing of the most popular girl at school, Laura. …
I loved this book, and read it almost in one sitting! It's atmospheric, creepy and actually really fun, in a spooky way. It tells the story of a small town called Warboys, nestled in Britain, and the way that the entry of one beautiful woman tears the town apart. That woman is Agnes Samuel. If …
