Next week, Grady Hendrix will embark on a UK book tour, celebrating the release of his latest horror masterpiece, WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS! The details are in the image above, below, and also on the author’s website.
- Sunday, April 27th — Mr B.’s Emporium, Bath — 7pm (SOLD OUT).
- Tuesday, April 29th — Phoenix Arts Club, London — 5:30pm.
- Wednesday, April 30th — Waterstones Cambridge — 6pm
- Thursday, May 1st — Sevenoaks Bookshop — 7pm
- Friday, May 2nd — Waterstones Liverpool — 6:30pm
- Saturday, May 3rd — Waterstones Birmingham — 6:30pm
- Sunday, May 4th — Waterstones Nottingham — 2pm
- Tuesday, May 6th — Argonaut Books, Edinburgh — 7pm
- Wednesday, May 7th — Topping & Company Booksellers, St. Andrews — 7:30pm
- Friday, May 9th — Waterstones, Cardiff — 7pm.
The novel is published in the UK by Tor Nightfire, and is out now. Here’s the synopsis…
‘I did an evil thing to be put in here, and I’m going to have to do an evil thing to get out.’
They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.
Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. There, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to keep her baby and escape to a commune. Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby’s father. And Holly, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.
Every moment of their waking day is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid… and it’s usually paid in blood.
Zeno represents Grady Hendrix in the UK and Commonwealth, on behalf of the JABberwocky Literary Agency in New York.