INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ¿ USA TODAY BESTSELLER WINNER OF TWO GOODREADS CHOICE
AWARDS (Best Debut Novel & Best Historical Fiction) An Indie Next March 2023 Pick ¿ A
LibraryReads March 2023 Pick ¿ An Amazon "Best Books of the Year So Far" 2023 Pick "A brave
and original debut Weyward is a spellbinding story about what may transpire when the natural
world collides with a legacy of witchcraft." --Sarah Penner New York Times bestselling author
of The London Séance Society I am a Weyward and wild inside. 2019: Under cover of
darkness Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage inherited from a great-aunt she
barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden the cottage is worlds away from
the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she suspects that her great-aunt had a secret. One
that lurks in the bones of the cottage hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century.
1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder of a local farmer who was stampeded to death by
his herd. When Altha was a girl her mother taught her their magic a kind not rooted in spell
casting but in a deep knowledge of the natural world. But unusual women have always been deemed
dangerous and as the evidence of witchcraft is laid out against Altha she knows it will take
all her powers to maintain her freedom. 1942: As World War II rages Violet is trapped in her
family's grand crumbling estate. Straitjacketed by societal convention she longs for the
robust education her brother receives--and for her mother long deceased who was rumored to
have gone mad before her death. The only traces Violet has of her are a locket bearing the
initial W and the word weyward scratched into the baseboard of her bedroom. Weaving together
the stories of three extraordinary women across five centuries Emilia Hart's Weyward is an
astonishing debut and an enthralling novel of female resilience.
