The Familiars : The spellbinding Sunday Times Bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club Pick The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee for Longlist (2015) Laura Biagiotti

Laura Biagiotti

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The Familiars : The spellbinding Sunday Times Bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club Pick The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee for Longlist (2015) Laura BiagiottiFleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, married, and pregnant for the fourth time. But as the mistress at Gawthorpe Hall, she still has no living child, and her husband Richard is anxious for an heir. When Fleetwood finds a letter she isnt supposed to read from the doctor who delivered her third stillbirth, she is dealt the crushing blow that she will not survive another pregnancy. When she crosses paths by chance with Alice Gray, a young midwife,