![]() ![]() It is also a great book in terms of suspense as there are many parts in it that had a horror vibe about them but the rich description is just incomparable and I found myself turning page after page just desperately wanting to find out the outcome and whether these two women could manage to save each other in the end. ![]() With the help of a new female friend that promises to assist in delivering her child safely, her character shifts throughout the writing, becoming more fortuitous and defiant in the face of societal expectations. At the start of the novel she finds herself worshipping her husband for the position and wealth he has given her, almost surrendering to the inevitability of becoming a voiceless female inferior to her male counterpart. ![]() ![]() The Familiars was the bestselling debut hardback novel of that year, won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards’ Debut Book of the Year. I found this book to be most inspiring as the main character, Fleetwood Shuttleworth (what a name), really grows as a character throughout the book, realising her worth and contradicting her almost assumed role as a domesticated, submissive wife and expectant mother in the 17th century. Stacey Halls was born in Lancashire and worked as a journalist before her debut The Familiars was published in 2019. ![]()
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