WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS – HENDRIX. GRADY

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"Superb ... a perfect horror for our imperfect age. The New York Times

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER

Theres power in a book

They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And theyre 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. Theres Rose, a hippie who insists shes going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her babys 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 theyre allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know whats 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 its never given freely. Theres always a price to be paid...and its 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).