by Stacey Halls · MICHEL LAFON · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782749944036
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«Les Sorcières de Pendle» is the historical novel by Stacey Halls, published by Michel Lafon in paperback (399 pages, in French).
In 1612 Lancashire, Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a young woman married to the owner of Gawthorpe Hall and pregnant after several miscarriages, sees in Alice Gray, a midwife skilled in medicinal plants, her last hope. When a witchcraft trial begins in Pendle, Alice is accused and Fleetwood fights to prove her innocence during her pregnancy.
French translation by Fabienne Gondrand; the English original was published as The Familiars. The work won the Betty Trask Award in 2020.
For readers of historical and gothic fiction with an interest in witchcraft and seventeenth-century female protagonists.
Stacey Nicole Halls is an English author of gothic historical fiction. Her debut novel The Familiars (2019) became a Sunday Times bestseller and earned a Betty Trask Award. This was followed by further bestsellers The Foundling (2020), Mrs England (2021) and The Household (2024). Halls won the 2022 Women's Prize x Good Housekeeping Futures Award.
