![]() Their relationship is fraught, each feeling the betrayal of the others as keenly as if it happened yesterday. Three sisters – James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna – meet again after seven years of being apart, in the city of New Salem. ![]() Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote-and perhaps not even to live-the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box.īut when the Eastwood sisters–James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna–join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women’s movement into the witch’s movement. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. ![]() ![]() In 1893, there’s no such thing as witches. Opening line: There’s no such thing as witches, but there used to be. It took a little while to get going but then it turned into everything I had hoped and more. So I went into her second novel with a bit of scepticism. Harrow’s debut novel The Ten Thousand Doors of January was good, but not nearly as immersive or emotionally impactful as I had hoped. ![]() I was so worried I wouldn’t like this book. ![]()
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