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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.
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The Familiars
In 1612 Lancashire, seventeen-year-old Fleetwood Shuttleworth, pregnant again after miscarriages that nearly killed her, hires a midwife named Alice Gray just as the Pendle witch accusations begin.
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.
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
Tituba, born on Barbados to an enslaved mother, learns healing from an old woman of the island and is sold to a Puritan minister in Massachusetts, where she is among the first accused in the Salem trials.
The Names
In 1987 Cora goes to register her newborn son: her violent husband wants him named Gordon, after himself, and her nine-year-old daughter likes Bear, and the novel follows the three different lives that unfold from each name.
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Esme, a motherless girl, grows up under the sorting table of the Scriptorium in Oxford, where her father and other lexicographers are compiling the Oxford English Dictionary, and starts to keep the words they throw away.
The Mercies
In 1617, after a storm drowns nearly every man of a fishing village on the Norwegian island of Vardø, the women learn to fend for themselves, until a witch-hunter arrives with his young Scottish wife.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
In 1687 Kit Tyler leaves Barbados for her aunt's strict Puritan household in Connecticut, and her friendship with an old Quaker woman the town calls a witch puts her in danger.
The Rose Code
A debutante, an East End girl and a shy puzzle-solver become codebreakers at Bletchley Park, then reunite on the eve of the 1947 royal wedding to unmask the traitor among them.
The Forgotten Garden
In 1913 a four-year-old girl is found alone on a ship docked in Australia with nothing but a small suitcase and a book of fairy tales; decades later her granddaughter Cassandra inherits a cottage on the Cornish coast and follows the trail back to where the girl came from.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
In a remote county of nineteenth-century China, seven-year-old Lily is matched with Snow Flower as a laotong, an 'old same' for life, and the two girls write to each other in nu shu, a secret women's script, on a silk fan as foot-binding, marriage and upheaval shape their lives.
A Woman Is No Man
In 1990 Isra, seventeen, is married off in Palestine and taken to live with her husband's family in Brooklyn. In 2008 her daughter Deya, eighteen and under pressure to marry, starts to learn the truth about her mother.
Matrix
Marie de France, seventeen and judged unfit for court, is sent to run a poor English abbey, and over the decades she turns it into a powerful, defiant community of women.