7/1/2023 0 Comments The familiars a novel![]() ![]() ![]() One day fate intervenes and she meets Alice Gray, a young midwife who she believes can help her through her fourth pregnancy successfully. Set in Lancashire in 1612 the plot is narrated by Fleetwood Shuttleworth who at seventeen years of age has been married for four years and in that time suffered three miscarriages. The Familiars is the debut novel from Stacey Halls, and one I have really been looking forward to reading. Time is running out, and both their lives are at stake. 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. ![]() ![]() But is there more to Alice than meets the eye? Alice promises to help her give birth to a healthy baby, and to prove the physician wrong.Īs Alice is drawn into the witchcraft accusations that are sweeping the north-west, Fleetwood risks everything by trying to help her. Then she crosses paths by chance with Alice Gray, a young midwife. 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. But as the mistress at Gawthorpe Hall, she still has no living child, and her husband Richard is anxious for an heir. įleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, married, and pregnant for the fourth time. In a time of suspicion and accusation, to be a woman is the greatest risk of all. ![]()
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