Louisa Morgan follows three women from one family of witches over several centuries. In seventeenth-century England, Annis Whitehead has to learn to use her inherited powers when a witch-hunt threatens her family, and the book passes the gift, and the burden, to her descendants, including a woman in Victorian London and another in the early twentieth century. Each faces a different threat and has to decide how to use her magic. The story focuses on bonds between mothers, daughters and granddaughters, and on the cost of power.
Readers who like historical fantasy about witches and family lines will find a warm, readable novel.
Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
Best for readers like The Curious Generalist. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
