![]() By chance, she meets a midwife named Alice Grey, who promises to help her deliver a healthy baby. Then Fleetwood discovers a hidden doctor’s letter that carries a dire prediction: she will not survive another birth. None of her previous pregnancies has borne fruit, and her husband, Richard, is anxious for an heir. Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a noblewoman, is with child again. It also helps that this book is about witches – of course. The tinges of recognition whenever a place is mentioned where I have been, a place that I might know off all create a closer bond with the characters I am reading about. Now whenever I pick up a book that plays out near me, I feel a greater connection to it. ![]() Now that I live in the UK that is less of an issue and it’s strange. Growing up in the Netherlands it was extremely rare to find books that had a connection to where I am from. I picked up this particular book because it is actually set in the local area. ![]() Pair that with the fact we now live on the water, no really, our apartment literally hovers above a private dockland overlooking the river Mersey, and you’ve got the perfect combination in my opinion. ![]() So, to start this one off on a slightly more cheery note than the previous two posts – how fabulous is the weather we have been having in the UK? Whenever the sun even makes the slightest appearance I am ready to run outside with a book and a picnic blanket to make the most of it. ![]()
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