5/29/2023 0 Comments The familiars book review![]() ![]() It’s a stunning book, and I was curious about the setting – the Pendle Witch Trials, of which I knew literally nothing. As the company I work at is part of the wider Bonnier group, I was also lucky enough to see some of the incredible sales and design work put into it before it was released. I picked up this book because I had heard universally wonderful things about it. ![]() Time is running out, and both their lives are at stake. Soon the two women’s lives will become inextricably bound together as the legendary trial at Lancaster approaches, and Fleetwood’s stomach continues to grow. But is there more to Alice than meets the eye? Alice promises to help her give birth to a healthy baby, and to prove the physician wrong.Īs Alice is drawn into the witchcraft accusations that are sweeping the North-West, Fleetwood risks everything by trying to help her. Then she crosses paths by chance with Alice Gray, a young midwife. When Fleetwood finds a letter she isn’t supposed to read from the doctor who delivered her third stillbirth, she is dealt the crushing blow that she will not survive another pregnancy. But as the mistress at Gawthorpe Hall, she still has no living child, and her husband Richard is anxious for an heir. Fleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, married, and pregnant for the fourth time. ![]()
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