![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stacey Halls grew up in Rossendale, Lancashire, as the daughter of market traders. 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 1612 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 trying to help her. Then she crosses paths 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. To protect a secret, she must risk her life.įleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, married, and pregnant for the fourth time. To save her child, she will trust a stranger. “In a time of suspicion and accusation, to be a woman is the greatest risk of all” I was lucky enough to be gifted an early copy of this debut thanks to Bonnier Zaffre. Happy Release Day to The Familiars – the debut novel by Stacey Hall. ![]()
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