Bøger af Stacey Halls

From the bestselling author of The Familiars and The Foundling comes Stacey Halls's most compelling and ambitious novel to date. West Yorkshire, 1904.

Fleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, and pregnant for the fourth time. But as the mistress at Gawthorpe Hall, she still has no living child, and her husband Richard is anxious for an heir. When Fleetwood discovers a secret from the doctor that she will not survive another pregnancy, she's crushed. Then she crosses paths by chance with Alice Gray, a young midwife. Alice promises to help her give birth to a healthy baby, and to prove the physician wrong. As Alice is drawn into the witchcraft accusations that are sweeping the North-West, Fleetwood risks everything by trying to help her. But is there more to Alice than meets the eye?

A gorgeous brand new cover edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller, Richard & Judy Book Club Pick and original break-out witchlit novel. Features an exclusive extract from Stacey Halls' unmissable new novel THE HOUSEHOLD - available to pre-order now!To save her child, she will trust a stranger. To protect a secret, she must risk her life . . . Fleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, married, and pregnant for the fourth time. But as the mistress at Gawthorpe Hall, she still has no living child, and her husband Richard is anxious for an heir. 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. Then she crosses paths by chance with Alice Gray, a young midwife. Alice promises to help her give birth to a healthy baby, and to prove the physician wrong. As Alice is drawn into the witchcraft accusations that are sweeping the North-West, Fleetwood risks everything by trying to help her. 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. Time is running out, and both their lives are at stake. Only they know the truth. Only they can save each other... 'Assured and alluring, this beautiful tale of women and witchcraft and the fight against power was a delight from start to finish' JESSIE BURTON'Stacey Halls is a writer of great originality, great imagination and great sense of place. Atmospheric, intelligent, accessible, every novel is worth reading, then reading again and again' KATE MOSSE'The new Hilary Mantel' COSMOPOLITAN'Captivating' SUNDAY EXPRESS'Arresting' THE TIMES'A brilliant debut, pacy and inventive, from a terrifically talented new voice' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Truly spellbinding' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'A must-read novel' HEATHER MORRIS bestselling author of THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ'Enthralling, spellbinding, full of twists and turns, written with heart and style - and the final chapters will have you racing to the end' KATE WILLIAMS'Phenomenal. Beautiful, haunting, strange and evocative' LIZ HYDER'Historical fiction at its feminist best' RED Magazine**THE HOUSEHOLD, the brand new novel from Stacey Halls, is available to pre-order now***Sunday Times bestseller February and September 2018*

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, highly anticipated new novel from Stacey Halls.

Two women, brought together by a child, and a secret that will change everything... London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara in the London Orphans' Workhouse, Bess Bright returns to retrieve the child. Fearing the worst, that Clara may have died there, Bess can't shake her astonishment when she is assured that she has already gone looking for her daughter. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who took her little girl...and why. Less than a mile from Bess's city accommodation, in a quiet and dreary terraced house on the outskirts of London, a young widow hasn't left her house in a decade. When her close friend, an ambitious young doctor from the Orphans' Hospice, convinces her to hire someone to care for her daughter, she has doubts about welcoming a new person into her home and her life. But her past threatens to catch up with her and tear apart the world she has carefully built.

London, 1754. Bess Bright vender tilbage til The Foundling for at hente den datter, som hun efterlod der seks år forinden. Men hun får at vide, at datteren allerede er blevet hentet og tilmed af hende selv. Bess forsøger at finde ud af, hvem der har taget hendes datter, og hvorfor nogen har udgivet sig for at være hende.Ikke langt derfra i den noget pænere del af London bor den unge enke Alexandra med sin eneste datter, Charlotte. De forlader aldrig huset, andet end for at tage i kirke om søndagen. Men det seksårige barn er rastløst og vil gerne opleve mere af verden. Efter tilskyndelse fra sin nære ven dr. Mead beslutter Alexandra at hyre en barneplejerske, som kan underholde pigen. De to kvinders skæbne flettes sammen, og fortidens synder spøger i kulisserne. For hvis barn er Charlotte i virkeligheden?

Dreading the worst - that Clara has died in care - the last thing she expects to hear is that her daughter has already been reclaimed - by her. When her close friend - an ambitious young doctor at the Foundling Hospital - persuades her to hire a nursemaid for her daughter, she is hesitant to welcome someone new into her home and her life.