by Stacey Halls · Pocket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266314138
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«Les Sorcières de Pendle» is the historical novel by Stacey Halls, published by Pocket in paperback (448 pages, in French).
In Lancashire in 1612, Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a young woman who has lost three pregnancies, hopes to give her husband an heir. Desperate, Fleetwood puts her trust in Alice Gray, a midwife skilled in medicinal plants, as her last hope. When the great Pendle witch trial erupts, Alice is accused and Fleetwood will fight to save her from the gallows.
The work was originally published in English as «The Familiars» (2019). This French edition is a translation by Fabienne Gondrand. The novel won the Betty Trask Award in 2020.
A title for readers of historical fiction and witchcraft fiction, with a female protagonist in seventeenth-century England.
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.
