Books like Lolly Willowes
After twenty years as the dutiful maiden aunt in her brother's London household, Laura Willowes moves alone to a village in the Chilterns, where she discovers a vocation as a witch.
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Weyward
In 2019 Kate flees an abusive partner for the cottage in Cumbria left to her by a great-aunt, and her story twines with those of Violet, a girl confined to her family's estate in 1942, and Altha, tried for witchcraft in 1619.
A Room of One's Own
Woolf's lecture-turned-book on why women who want to write need five hundred a year and a lockable door, in a voice that invented its own form of argument.
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
In an English village, Major Ernest Pettigrew, a retired, widowed stickler for tradition, strikes up a friendship with Mrs Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani widow who runs the village shop, to the dismay of his family and neighbours.
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
In the German duchy of Württemberg in the 1610s, Katharina Kepler, an illiterate widow and mother of the astronomer Johannes Kepler, is accused of witchcraft by a neighbour, and tells her side.
Cold Comfort Farm
Flora Poste, orphaned at nineteen and practical to a fault, goes to live with her doom-laden relatives the Starkadders at their farm in Sussex, and sets about putting everyone's life in order.
Autumn
In the months after the Brexit vote, Elisabeth Demand, a young art historian, visits Daniel Gluck, the century-old neighbour who befriended her as a child and now sleeps most of the day in a care home.
The Sense of an Ending
Tony Webster, retired and settled, receives a solicitor's letter about a small bequest from the mother of his university girlfriend, and it forces him to revisit his friendship with Adrian, the brilliant schoolfriend whose story he thought he understood.
The Mill on the Floss
A young woman's passionate nature collides with provincial convention in mid-Victorian England, and the cost of being too much for your world is devastating.
Equal Rites
The Disc's first female wizard fights for the right to attend Unseen University in a world where magic is strictly men's business.
My Brilliant Career
Sybylla Melvyn, a fiery girl on a struggling farm in the New South Wales bush, wants a life of art and books, and refuses to marry.
The Screwtape Letters
A senior devil writes thirty-one letters of advice to his junior-devil nephew on how to damn a young English Christian, across the first years of the London blitz.
The Witches of Eastwick
Three divorced women in a Rhode Island town discover their powers in the late 1960s and turn them to mischief, until a mysterious rich man buys the old mansion and seduces all three.