AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The twisted unforgettable horror novel from Grady Hendrix
author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group . 'A chillingly
addictive Southern Gothic tale' COSMOPOLITAN 'I did an evil thing to be put in here and
I'm going to have to do an evil thing to get out.' They call them wayward girls. Loose girls.
Girls who grew up too fast. And they're sent to the Wellwood House in St. Augustine Florida
where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret 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. There
she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. Rose a hippie who insists she's going
to keep her baby and escape to a commune. Zinnia a budding musician who plans to marry her
baby's father. And Holly barely fourteen mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who. Every moment
of their waking day is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what's 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 it's never given freely. There's always a price to be paid . . . and it's usually
paid in blood. Readers love Witchcraft for Wayward Girls . . . 'I was drawn in from the very
first page' 'Gave me chills' 'Tackles female rage brilliantly' 'Now know why this author is
so hyped!' 'Disturbing but brilliant' Witchcraft for Wayward Girls was a No. 5 Sunday Times
bestseller the w e 18th January.
