Extract: Cunning Women by Elizabeth Lee
A searing story of forbidden love and the curtailing of female wildness set amongst the long shadows cast by the Pendle Witch Trials is the bewitching debut from a magnetic new voice in historical fiction.
Lancashire, 1620
“ANNIE SLEEPS CURLED UP ON THE BED we share, wet thumb fallen from her mouth. I kneel, calling and shaking her. She frowns and mutters.