‘A chillingly addictive Southern Gothic tale’ – CosmopolitanAn instant Sunday Times bestseller‘I did an evil thing to be put in here, and I’m going to have to do an evil thing to get out.’The twisted, unforgettable horror novel from Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group.They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. There, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to keep her baby and escape to a commune. Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby’s father. And Holly, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.Every moment of their waking day is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid . . . and it’s usually paid in blood.‘At turns frightening, anxiety-producing, infuriating, beautiful and sad’ – The New York TimesReaders love Witchcraft for Wayward Girls . . .‘I was drawn in from the very first page’‘Gave me chills’‘Tackles female rage brilliantly’‘Disturbing but brilliant’Witchcraft for Wayward Girls was a No. 5 Sunday Times bestseller the w/e 18th January
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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
‘A chillingly addictive Southern Gothic tale’ – CosmopolitanAn instant Sunday Times bestseller‘I did an evil thing to be put in here, and I’m going to have to do an evil thing to get out.’The twisted, unforgettable horror novel from Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group.They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. There, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to keep her baby and escape to a commune. Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby’s father. And Holly, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.Every moment of their waking day is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid . . . and it’s usually paid in blood.‘At turns frightening, anxiety-producing, infuriating, beautiful and sad’ – The New York TimesReaders love Witchcraft for Wayward Girls . . .‘I was drawn in from the very first page’‘Gave me chills’‘Tackles female rage brilliantly’‘Disturbing but brilliant’Witchcraft for Wayward Girls was a No. 5 Sunday Times bestseller the w/e 18th January
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Reviewed by MiriamDas Buch ist direkt zu meinen Favoriten aufgestiegen. Es ist unglaublich, dass es von einem Mann geschrieben wurde, Grady Hendrix ist nicht nur ein wunderbarer Autor, es scheint als hätte er sich bei diesem Buch wirklich viel Wissen angeeignet. Ich bin so dermaßen in die Geschichte eingetaucht, dass ich manchmal vergessen habe, das ich gerade nur lese und nicht gerade erlebe. Das Buch ist wirklich unterhaltsam und für alle etwas die sich für Hexen interessieren, aber noch viel wichtiger, es erzählt über die missstände, Vorurteile, Gefahren und Isolierung von jungen Müttern in den 70ern. Hendrix hat sich dabei stark an der damaligen Realität orientiert, was grundsätzlich einfach auch ein sehr belastendes Thema ist.