![]() There was something fiercely intelligent, almost masculine, in her gaze, and though she was crouched down and I standing, for a moment I felt afraid, as though I was the one who had been discovered. ![]() Alice promises that there is hope – both for her and the baby: Perhaps death was right behind me, stepping with me, moving in my shadow, and at any moment it would gather me in its cloak.īefore she can work up the courage to confront her husband, in the woods Fleetwood meets Alice Gray, a strange young midwife. Fleetwood’s constant nausea, lack of appetite and deathly pallor all reinforce this assertion: In it, a doctor states that Fleetwood will not survive another pregnancy. She fears for her marriage and also her very life when she discovers an old letter that Richard has kept secret from her. ![]() Without an heir for her husband Richard, and with a strange distance growing between them, Fleetwood’s position feels tenuous. ![]() Fleetwood Shuttleworth, Mistress of Gawthorpe, is 17 years old and pregnant for the fourth time after three dreadful miscarriages. Stacey Halls plunges into the witch craze of 17th-century England in her new novel. Tags: historical fiction/ Lancashire/ Stacey Halls/ The Familiars/ witches ![]()
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