

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Books | Fiction / Horror
4.8
Grady Hendrix
"Superb ... a perfect horror for our imperfect age.” – The New York TimesAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERThere’s power in a book…They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid...and it’s usually paid in blood.In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, the author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a “horror master” (NPR).
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Author
Grady Hendrix
Pages
496
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2025-01-14
ISBN
0593548981 9780593548981
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"Another truly wonderful Grady Hendrix book, where you think you're going to read about one thing but it's really about something so much more. This book has me feeling everything from anger to sadness to tears of joy. Being an adopted child, this will leave me thinking about it for a long time. 4.5 stars "
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The Lazy Reader
"Not at all what I expected but also beautifully enlightening."
B C
Bailey Coleman
"This book was triggering, passionate, and kept me on the edge of my seat in all the best ways. It was BRAVE for a white male to approach this topic but it was done so well. As a former teen mom this book resonated with me. LOVED it and I don't think I'll read another book as good as this one this year."
J S
Jocelynn Sullivan
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