Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

Resumen del libro

They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they're sent to the Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened. Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. There, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. Rose, a hippie who insists she's going to keep her baby and escape to a commune. Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby's father. And Holly, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who. Every moment of their waking day is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what's best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it's never given freely. There's always a price to be paid . . . and it's usually paid in blood.

Biografía del autor

Grady Hendrix es novelista y guionista y actualmente vive en Nueva York. Ganador del premio Bram Stoker por su ensayo Paperbacks from Hell, ha sido nominado al premio Shirley Jackson y al Locus por Horrorstör, El exorcismo de mi mejor amiga y Vendimos nuestras almas.<br> Ha recibido el elogio unánime de la crítica por Guía del Club de lectura para matar vampiros o Grupo de Apoyo para Final Girls en reseñas de la NPR, el Washington Post, el Wall Street Journal, Los Ángeles Times, A. V. Club, Paste, Buzzfeed y muchas más. Asimismo ha colaborado con Playboy, The Village Boy y Variety. Su último trabajo Cómo vender una casa encantada ha sido un fenómeno de ventas en EEUU.<br> gradyhendrix.com<br> grady hendrix on Twitter<br> PaperbacksFromHell on Facebook<br>