![]() ![]() Time is running out, and both their lives are at stake. In The Familiars, Stacey Halls creates a world so engrossing that Fleetwoods pains and struggles feel like your own, and all you want is for her to succeed, at. But is there more to Alice than meets the eye? Soon the two women's lives will become inextricably bound together as the legendary trial at Lancaster approaches, and Fleetwood's stomach continues to grow. As Alice is drawn into the witchcraft accusations that are sweeping the North-West, Fleetwood risks everything by trying to help her. Alice promises to help her give birth to a healthy baby, and to prove the physician wrong. But a witch-obsessed frenzy sweeps the countryside. Then she crosses paths by chance with Alice Gray, a young midwife. Alice Gray claims she is a local midwife and promises to help Fleetwood deliver a healthy baby. When Fleetwood finds a letter she isn't supposed to read from the doctor who delivered her third stillbirth, she is dealt the crushing blow that she will not survive another pregnancy. But as the mistress at Gawthorpe Hall, she still has no living child, and her husband Richard is anxious for an heir. įleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, married, and pregnant for the fourth time. ![]() ![]() To protect a secret, she must risk her life. To save her child, she will trust a stranger. The Sunday Times Bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club Pick ![]()
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