A Sunday Times bestseller!Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything . . .London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate newborn at the Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the daughter she has never known. Dreading the worst, that she has died in care, she is astonished to discover someone pretending to be Bess has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girl—and why.Less than a mile from Bess's poor lodgings, in a quiet Georgian townhouse, lives Alexandra, a reclusive young widow. When her close friend—an ambitious doctor at the orphanage—persuades her to hire a nursemaid to help care for her daughter, she is hesitant to welcome someone new into her home. But her past is threatening to catch up with her and tear her carefully constructed world apart.From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The...

THE FAMILIARS A NOVEL"A beautiful tale of women, witchcraft and the fight against power."—Jessie Burton, New York Times bestselling author of The Miniaturis"The Familiars is a must-read novel."—Heather Morris, bestselling author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzIN 1612 IN LANCASTER, ENGLAND, THE HUNT FOR WITCHES IS RAMPANT...BUT IN A TIME OF SUSPICION AND ACCUSATION, TO BE A WOMAN IS THE GREATEST RISK OF ALL1612 Pendle HillYoung Fleetwood Shuttleworth is with child again. As the mistress of Gawthorpe Hall, she is anxious to provide her husband with an heir. But none of her previous pregnancies have come to term. Then she discovers a hidden letter from her physician that warns her husband that she will not survive another pregnancy.Distraught over the frightening revelation, Fleetwood wanders the woods of Pendle Hill, where she meets a young local woman named Alice Gray. A midwife, Alice promises Fleetwood she can help...