This is a thoroughly entertaining novel that doesn’t stand on its pedestal and claim to be Great Literature. It tells the story of an ordinary person who makes a big decision in her life and ends up having an extraordinary life. It’s rooted in spirituality and esoteric practices and it’s written from the inside so it treats Wicca and spirituality with the greatest respect. Moira Box gives up on her deeply unfulfilling Home Counties life where she is treated as a second-class citizen and decamps down to Cornwall, to its furthest edges, where she gathers around her a coven of like-minded ladies and plunges deeply into the past. The locations in Cornwall feel real and familiar. The book is lightly humorous and it’s uplifting because it describes someone’s personal empowerment and because it’s a positive advert for hands-dirty having-fun witchery. And there is mystery there too.

336pp, 216 x 140 mm, Paperback, 2024, RRP £16.99