{"product_id":"the-witchlings-girl-9781473629455","title":"The Witchlings Girl","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Coggan invites you to be with characters who, for all the magic and wonder of the world she creates, are entirely relatable - women bound by duty and justice, love and fear, trying to find their own paths in a world not of their making. It gave me hope; it made me cry. It''s a fantastically good book.'' - Claire North, author of \u003ci\u003eThe First Fifteen Lives of Harry August\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a quiet street far from the river, with an ancient tree growing through its walls and floors, is the House of the Dead. There lives the witchling: healer, midwife and conduit between the world of the living and the world below. A witchling must give up her family and friends and spend her life alone, tending to the sick and carrying the dead down dark tunnels to the underworld.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaley was born with the gift of death-magic, and at the age of seven her mother abandons her to the witchling to be raised as her successor. But as Haley grows older and learns her craft - as invading armies pass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for THE WITCHLING'S GIRL:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Witchling's Girl is an annoyingly good book.  There is such craft in it that I had to regularly stop to have awe.  Helena has done \u003cb\u003ethe remarkable thing of capturing love and hope in a world without heroes\u003c\/b\u003e, without some glorious prophecy to set you free, but where all you can do is the best you can.  It's a trick of storytelling that evades most of us, the \u003cb\u003eability to express the powerful stories of women in a world that seeks to silence them\u003c\/b\u003e, to find power in oppression and hope in even the darkest corners of the House of the Dead.  She tells stories of birth and death, capturing the humanity of each moment, the intimacy of every breath, while also asking questions about life, freedom, duty, hope and despair.  \u003cb\u003eShe builds a world out of intimate details, but suffused with magic and wonder, weaving the divine and the mundane into a world you could get lost in\u003c\/b\u003e.  She invites you to be with characters who, for all the magic of the universe, are entirely relatable - women bound by duty and justice, love and fear, trying to find their own paths in a world not of their making.\u003cb\u003e  It gave me hope; it made me cry.  It's a fantastically good book.\u003c\/b\u003e * Claire North, author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Helena Coggan:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe next JK Rowling * NBC’s Today *\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eVivid and intense\u003c\/b\u003e. Helena Coggan had me on the \u003cb\u003eedge of my seat\u003c\/b\u003e * Amanda Bouchet, bestselling author of The Kingmaker Chronicles *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003ephenomenal \u003c\/b\u003eachievement . . . \u003cb\u003eassured, frightening, action-packed\u003c\/b\u003e * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTense, exciting, engaging\u003c\/b\u003e * Claire North, author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003epulsing, labyrinthine, emotionally visceral\u003c\/b\u003e plot * Metro *\u003cbr\u003e'The plot \u003cb\u003epulses with action\u003c\/b\u003e and the characters are \u003cb\u003ebeautifully complex\u003c\/b\u003e. This is a book that \u003cb\u003esparks with adrenaline and longing\u003c\/b\u003e, all the way to the final page * Rebecca Ross, author of The Queen's Rising *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47851806261591,"sku":"9781473629455","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781473629455.jpg?v=1710645308","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-witchlings-girl-9781473629455","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}