Item: Weyward
Rating: 4.00
Author: lisbethwhite

by Emilia Hart

*As seen on BBC’s BETWEEN THE COVERS * A #2 Times bestseller * A New York Times bestseller PRE-ORDER EMILIA HART'S STUNNING NEW BOOK THE SIRENS NOW

‘Humming with a sly, exhilarating magic’ BRIDGET COLLINS
‘A much-heralded epic’ OBSERVER
‘Empowering’ GLAMOUR

Three women, five centuries, one spellbinding story

In the present day, Kate flees a traumatic relationship to the Cumbrian cottage she inherited from her great-aunt; but the cottage hides secrets of its own.

In 1942, Violet rebels against her father’s ideas of a ‘proper young lady’ . . . until he takes matters into his own hands.

In 1619, Altha is on trial for witchcraft, implicated in the gruesome death of a local man.

Three women they tried to cage – but Weyward women belong to the wild. And they cannot be tamed…

Weyward was a Times bestseller w/e 18-02-2023.

I loved this. Interconnected stories of women taking back their own agency from a patriarchy that seeks to keep them powerless are one of my favorite types of stories, so my love is almost a given. BUT THEN you make them all witches? Witches who have secret, small magics that can manifest most bigly when necessary? HELLO YES I WOULD LIKE MORE OF THIS. I also espcially liked that none of the women really knew each other except through artifacts left behind. The fact that each of them had to muddle through to figure out who and what they were made the reclamation of their own agency even more powerful.

Weyward

by Emilia Hart

Reviewed by lisbethwhite on Mar 27, 2023

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