Now She is Witch: ‘Myth-making at its best‘ Val McDermid

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This is a witch story unlike any other.

Lux has lost everything when Else finds her in the woods. Her family, her lover, her home – all burned. The world is suspicious of women like her. But Lux is cunning; she knows how to blend into the background. And she knows a lot about poisons.

Else needs Lux’s help to destroy the man who wronged her. But on their hunt they will uncover dark secrets that entangle them with dangerous adversaries.

From the snowy winter woods to the bright midnight sun; from lost and powerless to finding your path, Now She is Witch conjures a world where women grasp at power through witchcraft, sexuality and performance, and sometimes by throwing each other to the wolves.

‘A story that will hold you tight and not let go’ Stylist

‘Mesmerising and evocative…There are echoes of everything from the Brothers Grimm to Angela Carter’ Observer

‘Powerful, imaginative, compelling – myth-making at its best’ Val McDermid

‘An impassioned reclaiming of female desire…absorbingly atmospheric’ Daily Mail

‘Spooky, timeless, feminist, inventive, unsettling’ Viv Groksop

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Publisher

Vintage Digital (12 Jan. 2023)

Language

English

File size

2954 KB

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Enhanced typesetting

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Sticky notes

On Kindle Scribe

Print length

333 pages

Average Rating

4.00

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8 Reviews For This Product

  1. 08

    by Nuttytart

    Wanted to enjoy this book. Unfortunately the print is too small to read without a magnifying glass, even with reading glasses!

  2. 08

    by LizW

    It was ok

  3. 08

    by Lulu Burridge

    Just roll along in the multilayered storytelling. Poetry and mysticism combined. Who is witch? Or perhaps all of us are.

  4. 08

    by Antonia

    “We must remember that a woman can never act alone
    All that a woman says and knows and does must be at the command of a man
    And if there is no man around and still a woman says and knows and does
    Then the man commanding her
    Must be the devil”

    It’s hard to express how I felt about this book. It will definitely go down as one of my top reads of the year, and possibly one of my all-time favourites too. The story tells of Lux, alone and suspected of witchcraft after her mother’s death, when she meets the mysterious Else, who may or may not be a real witch. But there’s something about Kirsty Logan’s writing that seems to transcend the story itself; that reaches into the heart of a deep, dark, hidden history and pulls out a truth that resonates down the ages. There’s beauty, earthy humour, sadness, fury and hope. A fabulous book that I hope many people will read.

  5. 08

    by Wowbagger_The_Third

    I enjoyed the format the story adhered to and I enjoyed the narrative too. It was a little simple in delivery in some ways. For example there was a slight twist but a very obvious one. Not off putting but not really twist in that it was predictable.

  6. 08

    by Erin

    A beautiful, multi-faceted fable that explores what it means to be a woman on the outside of society, desired, vilified, hunted but always fiercely free.

  7. 08

    by Manda Scott

    This is outstanding: a world that runs parallel to our own, full of the graceless hypocrisies of men and the petty (and not-so-petty) cruelties of disempowered women. So, yes, it’s a story of power and its warping, but also of love and courage and wisdom and beauty and a magic that runs deep in the earth. Most of all, it’s a story of the lies we tell ourselves and the truths that underlie them. I adored this book. On every level, from the poetry of the prose to Lux’s courage and sheer canny-ness, it’s absolutely essential reading.

  8. 08

    by sandyv

    Possibly the most unusual novel I’ve read. Some of the writing is beautiful, some is what I guess is ‘stream of consciousness’; interesting, but too long and it gets a bit tiresome. Do read this book, it is something else (beyond many of the books we read today). Truly curious, but glad I read it.

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Now She is Witch: ‘Myth-making at its best‘ Val McDermid