The Familiars: The dark, captivating Sunday Times bestseller and original break-out witch-lit novel

Reviews

Mrs Geraldine Capel

Then almost out of the blue, she hires an intriguing young lady named Alice to become her midwife. Perfect holiday read.

Jennie Stradling

The research that went into it was phenomenal and the stroytelling very fluid and engaging. You get to follow Fleetwood on her personal journey to safely carry her baby to term, deal with personal betrayal and local persecution. Setting: A lot of the settings in this book are brilliantly described and really capture the imagination. However, as a few other reviewers of this book have commented, the storyline regularly includes large journeys on horseback that seem to have taken place in unreasonable time-frames (and questionable in Fleetwood’s pregnant state).

Trinny

I enjoyed the way the two main characters developed together and the protectiveness of Fleetwood of her friend was really felt. An enjoyable, pleasant read. ). Premise: This is the story of the Lancashire witch trials told from the perspective of the young Fleetwood, a relatively newly appointed mistress of Gawthorpe Hall.