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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

Power, rage and a price always paid in blood, behind the walls of a Florida home for wayward girls.
Reading guide
The novel can be read on its own, so there is no required order to follow.
Fern arrives at Wellwood House frightened and alone and meets the other girls there. Strict adult control shapes every day until a librarian gives her an occult book, and the girls begin to hold a kind of power they have never had. The publisher notes that this power can destroy as easily as it creates, and that it is never given freely.

Description

In 1970, Fern arrives at Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, a home where families hide their pregnant daughters until the babies are born, given up and forgotten. She is fifteen, frightened and alone, and she finds a dozen girls in the same situation: Rose, who is determined to keep her baby, Zinnia, who plans to marry her child's father, and Holly, barely fourteen and silent. Every hour of their day is controlled by adults who insist they know best, until a librarian gives Fern an occult book about witchcraft.

Grady Hendrix, author of How to Sell a Haunted House, writes with a furious heart. The publisher describes the novel as a Southern Gothic tale about girls denied any say over their own lives and about the cost of power. It was a Sunday Times bestseller, and it suits readers who want their Gothic fiction angry, tender and genuinely frightening.

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