Don't miss Stacey Halls' incredible new novel THE HOUSEHOLD - available to buy now!
The Sunday Times Bestseller, Richard & Judy Book Club Pick and original break-out witchlit novel.
To save her child, she will trust a stranger. To protect a secret, she must risk her life . . .
Fleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, married, and pregnant for the fourth time. But as the mistress at Gawthorpe Hall, she still has no living child, and her husband Richard is anxious for an heir. When Fleetwood finds a letter she isn't supposed to read from the doctor who delivered her third stillbirth, she is dealt the crushing blow that she will not survive another pregnancy.
Then she crosses paths by chance with Alice Gray, a young midwife. Alice promises to help her give birth to a healthy baby, and to prove the physician wrong.
As Alice is drawn into the witchcraft accusations that are sweeping the North-West, Fleetwood risks everything by trying to help her. But is there more to Alice than meets the eye?
Soon the two women's lives will become inextricably bound together as the legendary trial at Lancaster approaches, and Fleetwood's stomach continues to grow. Time is running out, and both their lives are at stake.
Only they know the truth. Only they can save each other...
'Assured and alluring, this beautiful tale of women and witchcraft and the fight against power was a delight from start to finish' JESSIE BURTON
'Stacey Halls is a writer of great originality, great imagination and great sense of place. Atmospheric, intelligent, accessible, every novel is worth reading, then reading again and again' KATE MOSSE
'The new Hilary Mantel' COSMOPOLITAN
'Captivating' SUNDAY EXPRESS
'Arresting' THE TIMES
'A brilliant debut, pacy and inventive, from a terrifically talented new voice' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Truly spellbinding' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
'A must-read novel' HEATHER MORRIS bestselling author of THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ
'Enthralling, spellbinding, full of twists and turns, written with heart and style - and the final chapters will have you racing to the end' KATE WILLIAMS
'Phenomenal. Beautiful, haunting, strange and evocative' LIZ HYDER
'Historical fiction at its feminist best' RED Magazine
**THE HOUSEHOLD, the brand new novel from Stacey Halls, is available to pre-order now**
*Sunday Times bestseller February and September 2018*
*Winner of Women's Prize for Fiction x Good Housekeeping Futures award - Good Housekeeping 14 Oct 2022* Stacey Halls was born in 1989 and grew up in Rossendale, Lancashire. She studied journalism at the University of Central Lancashire and has written for publications including Guardian, Stylist, Psychologies, Independent, Sun and Fabulous. Her first book, The Familiars, was the bestselling debut hardback novel of 2019, won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards Debut Book of the Year. The Foundling, her second, was a Sunday Times bestseller, as was her third Mrs England. Mrs England was longlisted for the Portico Prize, the Walter Scott Prize and won the Women's Prize Futures Award. Her latest novel, The Household, was also a Sunday Times bestseller. The biggest debut fiction launch of 2019 Acquired following a fierce 9 way publisher auction - The Familiars is set to be the biggest debut fiction launch of 2019. This is historical reading group fiction perfect for fans of The Miniaturist, Burial Rites and The Essex Serpent. The Familiars is based on real characters and real life events. The author Stacey Halls grew up in Lancashire where the book is based. She is a journalist who now works as Deputy Chief Sub Editor at the Sun's Fabulous magazine. Topline, long-term publicity campaign focusing on building grass roots support for the novel among booksellers, influencers, journalists and readers. As a lead title for 2019 this novel will be supported with major national print, broadcast & online medi
