People at Synagogue say she is weird. A psychiatrist says she has Asperger's. But Evie knows she is a witch. Leeds, England 1982. After the sudden death of her eccentric aunt Mim, Evie Edelman is left with a sizeable fortune, a yellow Alpine Sunbeam and a chihuahua named Peggy. Seizing her chance at independence, she escapes the claustrophobia of her parents' house and the disapproval of her tight-knit Jewish community and moves to the country to practice her true calling: witchcraft. But trouble follows Evie in the form of her first-love Alex, and property developer Malcolm who just might be Satan himself. As Evie finds herself increasingly torn between magick and reality, and the past and present, rumours begin flying about what exactly a single young woman is doing in a remote village on her own. Soon, Evie starts to wonder whether she is always destined to be misunderstood - and if she will ever figure out who she truly is. AUTHOR: Harriett de Mesquita is a London-born novelist, now based in rural Suffolk. Diagnosed with autism as an adult, she explores the neurodiverse experience in her work, particularly in women. She is determined to make autistic protagonists and their adventures a normal feature in the literary world. Coming from a Sephardic Jewish family, her writing also focuses on modern Jewish life and family relationships. Harriett trained as a classical dancer. When she is not writing, she can be found teaching Pilates, swimming in the North Sea and spending time with her French Bulldog, Loretta.
