The House of Cursed Daughters

Cooke expertly weaves the terrifying and real experience of witch persecution with dark magic and the power of sisterhood … The words of the curse echo in the air above the roaring of a pyre that she knows cannot be real, and yet which ring in the room with her now, crackling and jabbing the ceiling like knives. But Isabella’s mind is on the curse, on how close her son came to death. The people need stability.’ He is silent for a long time. ‘The people,’ he says finally. ‘English people.