I can't wait to read the second book.Īt the end in the after notes the author mentions that while researching this book she discovered that an ancestor of hers was tried and hung for Witchery on Gallows Hill during the witch trials in 1692. It's full of spells, potions, ghosts and magical creatures. This book unravels slowly almost mesmerizingly which is perfect for this story. The women find themselves caught-up in a mystery revolving around a fanatical clergyman. It's disguised as a "tea" shop but many women come in looking for a little bit of something extra through "witchery." Beatrice Dunn is a young woman who comes into the shop looking for work after a posting for help wanted. Clair and Adelaide Thom open a shop called, "Tea and Sympathy" in New York City in 1880.
The story focuses on three witches 🧙🏻♀️ The first two, Eleanor St. I listened to the audio narrated by the ever-wonderful Julia Whelan! This was a perfect book for the season 🎃 In a time when women were corseted, confined and committed for merely speaking their minds, were any of them safe? Amidst the witches' tug-of-war over what's best for her, Beatrice disappears, leaving them to wonder whether it was by choice or by force.Īs Adelaide and Eleanor begin the desperate search for Beatrice, they're confronted by accusations and spectres from their own pasts. Quinn Brody, a talented alienist, she submits Beatrice to a series of tests to see if she truly can talk to spirits.
Has she been touched by magic or is she simply losing her mind?Įleanor wants to tread lightly and respect the magic manifest in the girl, but Adelaide sees a business opportunity. Objects appear out of thin air, as if gifts from the dead. Beatrice soon becomes indispensable as Eleanor's apprentice, but her new life with the witches is marred by strange occurrences. Together they cater to Manhattan's high society ladies, specializing in cures, palmistry and potions-and in guarding the secrets of their clients.Īll is well until one bright September afternoon, when an enchanting young woman named Beatrice Dunn arrives at their door seeking employment. Two hundred years after the trials in Salem, Adelaide Thom ('Moth' from The Virgin Cure) has left her life in the sideshow to open a tea shop with another young woman who feels it's finally safe enough to describe herself as a witch: a former medical student and "gardien de sorts" (keeper of spells), Eleanor St. The beloved, bestselling author of The Birth House and The Virgin Cure is back with her most beguiling novel yet, luring us deep inside the lives of a trio of remarkable young women navigating the glitz and grotesqueries of Gilded-Age New York by any means possible, including witchcraft.
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