THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Chillingly addictive' - Cosmopolitan 'A perfect horror
for our imperfect age' - The New York Times 'I did an evil thing to be put in here and I'm
going to have to do an evil thing to get out.' In this twisted unforgettable horror novel
a group of young girls turn to a dark ancient magic. 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. And where every moment of their waking day is strictly controlled by adults who
claim they know what's best for them. 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. There's 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. 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' 'Disturbing but brilliant' Witchcraft for Wayward
Girls was a No. 5 Sunday Times bestseller the w e 18th January 2025.
