Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

\"Superb ... a perfect horror for our imperfect age.”– The New York Times AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER There’s power in a book… They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine Florida where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret to 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. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia a budding musician who plans to marry her baby’s father. And Holly a wisp of a girl barely fourteen mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who. Eve