She dug her mother's grave in the poison garden so it would stay hidden...
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 of violence and beauty - a world where women grasp at power through witchcraft, sexuality and performance, and most of all through throwing each other to the wolves.
Lux has lost everything when Else finds her, alone 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 exploit people's expectations, how to blend into the background. And she knows a lot about poisons.
Else has not found Lux by accident. She needs her help to seek revenge against the man who wronged her, and together they pursue him north. But on their hunt they will uncover dark secrets that entangle them with dangerous adversaries.
This is a witch story unlike any other.
'An impassioned reclaiming of female desire. Stuffed, Russian-doll like, with stories, it's on the baggy side... an absorbingly atmospheric adventure' Daily Mail
'Beautiful......fierce and dream-like...powerful...compelling, haunting, and enriching' Scotsman
'Spooky, timeless, feminist, inventive, unsettling' Viv Groskop
'Powerful, imaginative, compelling - this is myth-making at its best' Val McDermid
Kirsty Logan is a professional daydreamer. Her first story collection, The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales, won the Scott Prize, the Polari First Book Prize and the Saboteur Award. Her first novel, The Gracekeepers, won a Lambda Literary Award and was selected for the Radio 2 Book Club and the Waterstones Book Club. A Portable Shelter won the Gavin Wallace Fellowship and Things We Say in the Dark, a collection of feminist horror stories, was optioned for TV. Her short fiction and poetry have been translated into Japanese, Spanish, Italian and Chinese, adapted for stage, recorded for radio and exhibited in galleries. She lives in Glasgow with her family.
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Title: Now She is Witch: A witch story unlike any other from the author of The Gracekeepers
Author: Logan, Kirsty
ISBN: 9781787303423
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Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Date: 2023-01-12
Number of Pages: 352
Weight: 0.5602 kg
Powerful, imaginative, compelling - this is myth-making at its best -- Val McDermid
Beautiful......fierce and dream-like...powerful...compelling, haunting, and enriching * Scotsman *
Spooky, timeless, feminist, inventive, unsettling... this book is every bit as atmospheric and compelling as you'd hope. -- Viv Groskop
'A hugely compelling book that seeks to rewrite what we think about witches. Dark, luscious prose wrapped around ideas that have enormous contemporary relevance. Kirsty Logan is at the height of her powers' -- Heather Parry
'Powerful, beautiful and deeply unsettling. The prose is magical' -- Sally Magnusson
Now She is Witch is a beautiful, atmospheric, resonant tale that follows Lux and Else as they fight to be heard and to tell their own stories. Kirsty Logan shows the limited choices left to these women, and draws the reader into their struggles to take control of their own lives. -- Elizabeth Lee, author of CUNNING WOMEN
A dark conjuring of a book: angry, powerful, hypnotic, told in prose of dazzling power. -- Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Frequently compared to Angela Carter for her luxuriant imagination and love of fairytales, Logan shifts from the uncanny to the terrifying in her new collection * Guardian, on Things We Say in the Dark *
An impassioned reclaiming of female desire. Stuffed, Russian-doll like, with stories...an absorbingly atmospheric adventure * Daily Mail *
Now She Is Witch is a meticulously researched piece of fantasy * Skinny *
