My new novel is set around the time of the great witch-hunts in Europe. In Great Britain alone, around six hundred women were killed in witchcraft executions. There was a growing anxiety about the way women behaved – especially poor women or women living on their own. I discuss this in my latest video from The London Library and how, in troubled times, these women were easy scapegoats – their words taken as curses as people sought explanations for terrible things.

It is in this world that Alinor, the heroine of my new novel Tidelands, must survive. Tidelands will be out on 20 August, and you can pre-order it at these links:
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