Debut

The Flatshare was Beth O’Leary’s debut novel, published in 2019. It quickly went on to be a bestseller and has now been made into a major tv series.

The Familiars is the debut novel by fellow northerner Stacey Halls, published in 2019. It went on to be a bestseller and was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick in 2019.

I was keen to know more about the notorious witch trials that swept the north of England in the 17th century and couldn’t wait to read the novel described as “historical fiction at its feminist best” by Red Magazine.