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Witchcraft for wayward girls / Grady Hendrix.
"Set in Florida in the 1970s, Grady Hendrix's newest novel follows five young women in a home for unwed mothers who find a guide to witchcraft"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593548981 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 482 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Berkley, [2025]
- Copyright: ©2025
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| Genre: | Horror fiction. Psychological fiction. Novels. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Hendr | 31681010401537 | FICTION | On holds shelf | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Four teenage girls trapped in a secretive maternity home for unwed mothers in 1960 St. Augustine, Florida, find an unexpected source of power through witchcraft. - Baker & Taylor
"Set in Florida in the 1970s, Grady Hendrix's newest novel follows five young women in a home for unwed mothers who find a guide to witchcraft"-- - Penguin Putnam
"Superb ... a perfect horror for our imperfect age.â â The New York Times
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
They were never girls, they were witches . . . .
They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And theyâre sent to the 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, frightened, and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. Thereâs Rose, a hippie who insists sheâs going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her babyâs 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 theyâre allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by the adults who claim they know whatâs 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 itâs never given freely. Thereâs always a price to be paid . . . and itâs 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 âhorror masterâ (NPR).
