'A chillingly addictive Southern Gothic tale' - Cosmopolitan An instant Sunday Times
bestseller 'I did an evil thing to be put in here and I'm going to have to do an evil thing
to get out.' The twisted unforgettable horror novel from Grady Hendrix New York Times
bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group . 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. 'At turns frightening
anxiety-producing infuriating beautiful and sad' - The New York Times Readers love
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls . . . 'I was drawn in from the very first page' 'Gave me
chills' 'Tackles female rage brilliantly' 'Disturbing but brilliant' Witchcraft for Wayward
Girls was a No. 5 Sunday Times bestseller the w e 18th January.
