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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 . . .
The year is 1880. 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. Clair. Together they cater to Manhattan's high society ladies, specializing in cures, palmistry and potions--and in guarding the secrets of their clients. All is well until one bright September afternoon, when an enchanting young woman named Beatrice Dunn arrives at their door seeking employment.
Beatrice soon becomes indispensable as Eleanor's apprentice, but her new life with the witches is marred by strange occurrences. She sees things no one else can see. She hears voices no one else can hear. Objects appear out of thin air, as if gifts from the dead. Has she been touched by magic or is she simply losing her mind? Eleanor wants to tread lightly and respect the magic manifest in the girl, but Adelaide sees a business opportunity. Working with Dr. Quinn Brody, a talented alienist, she submits Beatrice to a series of tests to see if she truly can talk to spirits. 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.
As Adelaide and Eleanor begin the desperate search for Beatrice, they're confronted by accusations and spectres from their own pasts. In a time when women were corseted, confined and committed for merely speaking their minds, were any of them safe?
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WITCH - noun
A woman thought to have evil magic powers; one credited with usually malignant supernatural power; especially: a woman practicing witchcraft with the aid of a devil or familiar.
To those who would say the world holds no more conjurers, enchantresses and the like, I respectfully ask, are you certain of this? For this night, within the candlelit walls of a room near Madison Square, three witches are alive and well - one born of cunning, one born of ghosts, one born of wishes yet to be fulfilled.
Eleanor St. Clair, Adelaide Thom and Beatrice Dunn have gathered to prepare for an evening among Manhattan's elite. By divination, enchantment, spellcraft and seduction, they'll carry out their work in the drawing room of a grand mansion on Fifth Avenue. Without the aid of a medium's cabinet or false knocks on table or wall, they'll peer into the future and call upon the dead. They have no need for the trappings of Spiritualism. 'Ready or not, it's begun...'
Compelling, enchanting and utterly unique, The Witches of New York invites you on a journey ranging from high society Manhattan to the hidden voices of the budding suffragette movement, and on to the web of secrets that connects them all.
So well researched is this novel, so deep does it take readers into the dark and desperate life of Lower Manhattan that it is easy to believe it was written 150 years ago as a treatise decrying the fate that awaited so many impoverished young girls. . . . The novel is an immersive coming-of-age story, unnerving and powerful. --Associated Press on The Virgin Cure"
McKay captures the era s atmosphere in such crisply rendered details. Thought-provoking and beautifully rendered. -- Booklist"
Praise for The Virgin Cure: So well researched is this novel, so deep does it take readers into the dark and desperate life of Lower Manhattan that it is easy to believe it was written 150 years ago as a treatise decrying the fate that awaited so many impoverished young girls. . . . The novel is an immersive coming-of-age story, unnerving and powerful. -- Booklist on The Virgin Cure"
Strongly delineated characters and a vivid historical backdrop. -- Kirkus on The Virgin Cure"
This is a lovely novel, written in a style that is both clean and subtle. McKay s voices are true; her characters sympathetic. . . . I m certain readers will take to The Virgin Cure just as they did The Birth House. --Vancouver Sun"
Lyrical prose and deft storytelling. -- Chicago Sun-Times on The Birth House"
Nasty women, your party has arrived. Ami McKay s witches are in town . The real aim of McKay s new novel is to show a group of believable women leading an unconventional life . McKay is a fine plotter .The layering of narratives and styles is lively, and the multiple characters pasts are especially absorbing . Society types straight out of Edith Wharton pursue spiritualism for fun but McKay widens her scope with grimier episodes . She has a nose for the Dickensian. --Alix Hawley, Globe and Mail"
A labour of love, and a testament to the craft . The novel unfolds with a hurtling intensity. But McKay doesn t let the compulsive momentum interfere with her deeper explorations of her characters .McKay is able to tease out hidden depths and contradictions with ease, revealing the characters in their confounding (and occasionally off-putting) complexity . One cannot help but want to spend more time in the company of these witches. --Robert J. Wiersema, National Post"
The book is richly researched, and packed with enticing historical detail. McKay s prose is, as always, superb the descriptions enchanting, the narrative arcs compelling, the characters dear (or deliciously sinister, as the case may be). But it is the emotion of the novel that lingers longest, the pervading horror over the persecution of women and what this persecution has done to repress women s talents, impede their progress and stamp out their voices. --Tara Henley, Toronto Star"
Boasting a set of core characters that are perfectly realised The Witches of New York is a compelling, fast paced read . [McKay s research] shows particularly strongly in the strength of the link she makes between accusations of witchcraft, and their associated punishments, and a deeply ingrained, often religiously driven, sexism. McKay does not shy away from that, instead embracing the dark history of witch hunts and witch trials, and making it abundantly clear that this it was not just about stamping out magic, but stamping out a form of power that was, and still is, dominated by women. --Jodie B. Sloan, AU Review (Australia)"
"Nasty women, your party has arrived. Ami McKay's witches are in town.... The real aim of McKay's new novel is to show a group of believable women leading "an unconventional life..".. McKay is a fine plotter....The layering of narratives and styles is lively, and the multiple characters' pasts are especially absorbing.... Society types straight out of Edith Wharton pursue spiritualism for fun... but McKay widens her scope with grimier episodes.... She has a nose for the Dickensian."--Alix Hawley, Globe and Mail
"A labour of love, and a testament to the craft.... The novel unfolds with a hurtling intensity. But McKay doesn't let the compulsive momentum interfere with her deeper explorations of her characters....McKay is able to tease out hidden depths and contradictions with ease, revealing the characters in their confounding (and occasionally off-putting) complexity.... One cannot help but want to spend more time in the company of these witches."--Robert J. Wiersema, National Post
"The book is richly researched, and packed with enticing historical detail. McKay's prose is, as always, superb -- the descriptions enchanting, the narrative arcs compelling, the characters dear (or deliciously sinister, as the case may be). But it is the emotion of the novel that lingers longest, the pervading horror over the persecution of women -- and what this persecution has done to repress women's talents, impede their progress and stamp out their voices."--Tara Henley, Toronto Star
"Boasting a set of core characters that are perfectly realised... The Witches of New York is a compelling, fast paced read.... [McKay's research] shows particularly strongly in the strength of the link she makes between accusations of witchcraft, and their associated punishments, and a deeply ingrained, often religiously driven, sexism. McKay does not shy away from that, instead embracing the dark history of witch hunts and witch trials, and making it abundantly clear that this it was not just about stamping out magic, but stamping out a form of power that was, and still is, dominated by women."--Jodie B. Sloan, AU Review (Australia)
"So well researched is this novel, so deep does it take readers into the dark and desperate life of Lower Manhattan that it is easy to believe it was written 150 years ago as a treatise decrying the fate that awaited so many impoverished young girls. . . . The novel is an immersive coming-of-age story, unnerving and powerful."--Associated Press on The Virgin Cure
"Lyrical prose and deft storytelling."-- Chicago Sun-Times on The Birth House
"Strongly delineated characters and a vivid historical backdrop."-- Kirkus on The Virgin Cure
McKay captures the era s atmosphere in such crisply rendered details. Thought-provoking and beautifully rendered. -- Booklist"
Praise for The Virgin Cure: So well researched is this novel, so deep does it take readers into the dark and desperate life of Lower Manhattan that it is easy to believe it was written 150 years ago as a treatise decrying the fate that awaited so many impoverished young girls. . . . The novel is an immersive coming-of-age story, unnerving and powerful. -- Booklist on The Virgin Cure"
Strongly delineated characters and a vivid historical backdrop. -- Kirkus on The Virgin Cure"
This is a lovely novel, written in a style that is both clean and subtle. McKay s voices are true; her characters sympathetic. . . . I m certain readers will take to The Virgin Cure just as they did The Birth House. --Vancouver Sun"
Lyrical prose and deft storytelling. -- Chicago Sun-Times on The Birth House"
Nasty women, your party has arrived. Ami McKay s witches are in town . The real aim of McKay s new novel is to show a group of believable women leading an unconventional life . McKay is a fine plotter .The layering of narratives and styles is lively, and the multiple characters pasts are especially absorbing . Society types straight out of Edith Wharton pursue spiritualism for fun but McKay widens her scope with grimier episodes . She has a nose for the Dickensian. --Alix Hawley, Globe and Mail"
A labour of love, and a testament to the craft . The novel unfolds with a hurtling intensity. But McKay doesn t let the compulsive momentum interfere with her deeper explorations of her characters .McKay is able to tease out hidden depths and contradictions with ease, revealing the characters in their confounding (and occasionally off-putting) complexity . One cannot help but want to spend more time in the company of these witches. --Robert J. Wiersema, National Post"
The book is richly researched, and packed with enticing historical detail. McKay s prose is, as always, superb the descriptions enchanting, the narrative arcs compelling, the characters dear (or deliciously sinister, as the case may be). But it is the emotion of the novel that lingers longest, the pervading horror over the persecution of women and what this persecution has done to repress women s talents, impede their progress and stamp out their voices. --Tara Henley, Toronto Star"
Boasting a set of core characters that are perfectly realised The Witches of New York is a compelling, fast paced read . [McKay s research] shows particularly strongly in the strength of the link she makes between accusations of witchcraft, and their associated punishments, and a deeply ingrained, often religiously driven, sexism. McKay does not shy away from that, instead embracing the dark history of witch hunts and witch trials, and making it abundantly clear that this it was not just about stamping out magic, but stamping out a form of power that was, and still is, dominated by women. --Jodie B. Sloan, AU Review (Australia)"
"Nasty women, your party has arrived. Ami McKay's witches are in town.... The real aim of McKay's new novel is to show a group of believable women leading "an unconventional life..".. McKay is a fine plotter....The layering of narratives and styles is lively, and the multiple characters' pasts are especially absorbing.... Society types straight out of Edith Wharton pursue spiritualism for fun... but McKay widens her scope with grimier episodes.... She has a nose for the Dickensian."--Alix Hawley, Globe and Mail
"A labour of love, and a testament to the craft.... The novel unfolds with a hurtling intensity. But McKay doesn't let the compulsive momentum interfere with her deeper explorations of her characters....McKay is able to tease out hidden depths and contradictions with ease, revealing the characters in their confounding (and occasionally off-putting) complexity.... One cannot help but want to spend more time in the company of these witches."--Robert J. Wiersema, National Post
"The book is richly researched, and packed with enticing historical detail. McKay's prose is, as always, superb -- the descriptions enchanting, the narrative arcs compelling, the characters dear (or deliciously sinister, as the case may be). But it is the emotion of the novel that lingers longest, the pervading horror over the persecution of women -- and what this persecution has done to repress women's talents, impede their progress and stamp out their voices."--Tara Henley, Toronto Star
"Boasting a set of core characters that are perfectly realised... The Witches of New York is a compelling, fast paced read.... [McKay's research] shows particularly strongly in the strength of the link she makes between accusations of witchcraft, and their associated punishments, and a deeply ingrained, often religiously driven, sexism. McKay does not shy away from that, instead embracing the dark history of witch hunts and witch trials, and making it abundantly clear that this it was not just about stamping out magic, but stamping out a form of power that was, and still is, dominated by women."--Jodie B. Sloan, AU Review (Australia)
"So well researched is this novel, so deep does it take readers into the dark and desperate life of Lower Manhattan that it is easy to believe it was written 150 years ago as a treatise decrying the fate that awaited so many impoverished young girls. . . . The novel is an immersive coming-of-age story, unnerving and powerful."--Associated Press on The Virgin Cure
"Lyrical prose and deft storytelling."-- Chicago Sun-Times on The Birth House
"Strongly delineated characters and a vivid historical backdrop."-- Kirkus on The Virgin Cure
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