INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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 begins to suspect 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. As a
girl Altha's 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 for witchcraft is set out against Altha she knows it will take all of 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 enthralling novel of
female resilience and the transformative power of the natural world.
