by Stacey Halls · Zaffre · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781785766145
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«The Familiars» is the historical fantasy novel by Stacey Halls, published by Zaffre in paperback (448 pages, in English).
Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a young noblewoman from Lancashire in 1612, discovers a medical letter predicting she will not survive childbirth. Her encounter with Alice Gray, a midwife accused of witchcraft, makes them allies: as the Lancaster witch trial approaches, Fleetwood risks everything to prove her innocence.
It is Stacey Halls's first novel. The novel won the Betty Trask Award in 2020 and was chosen by the Richard & Judy book club.
For readers of historical fiction and fantasy with female protagonists and a witchcraft setting.
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.
