“This e-book kicked my butt up one facet of the block and again down the opposite,” writer Grady Hendrix informed us earlier this yr about his novel Witchcraft for Wayward Women. The e-book is ready for paperback launch subsequent January and to have fun, we have now two copies to present away!
The e-book follows pregnant fifteen-year-old Fern, who’s pressured to remain at Wellwood Home – a house for ‘wayward women’. Unfastened women. Women who grew up too quick. Unwed moms who’re hidden by their households to have their infants in secret, give them up for adoption, and most significantly of all, neglect any of it ever occurred.
Set within the sweltering summer season of 1970, Fern meets a dozen different women in the identical predicament at Wellwood. Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to maintain her child and escape to a commune. Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her child’s father. And Holly, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.
Each second of their waking day is strictly managed by adults who declare they know what’s finest for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who provides her an occult e-book about witchcraft, and energy is within the palms of the ladies for the primary time of their lives. However energy can destroy as simply because it creates, and it’s by no means given freely. There’s at all times a value to be paid . . . and it’s often paid in blood.
“Getting the Seventies proper, getting being pregnant proper, getting the maternity houses proper — it was rather a lot and and not using a coven of ladies (and a few males) who helped me, shared their delivery tales, and answered my intrusive questions I might have been misplaced. However you’re proper — all of it goes again to discovering out that two of my kin had been despatched away as youngsters, a truth they by no means mentioned till they had been within the 70s,” Hendrix continued.
“It blew my thoughts that that they had been hidden away like criminals for doing essentially the most pure factor on this planet. I learn extra in regards to the houses to attempt to wrap my head round it and realised that the houses — the place pregnant teenage women had been shamed and hidden — supplied an ideal location for a e-book if I used to be as much as the duty. It took me a few years to get to some extent the place I used to be able to even try scripting this one, so I can solely hope I didn’t screw it up too badly.”
Now you may spend time with Fern and the ladies with our newest competitors to win TWO copies of Witchcraft for Wayward Women in paperback. To be in with an opportunity of successful, merely reply the query under…
This competitors closes on 10 January 2026. Good luck!
Witchcraft for Wayward Women will likely be launched in paperback on 1st January 2026 by Tor Nightfire priced at £9.99
