The Witchling’s Girl

Praise for THE WITCHLING’S GIRL:

The Witchling’s Girl is an annoyingly good book. There is such craft in it that I had to regularly stop to have awe. Helena has done the remarkable thing of capturing love and hope in a world without heroes, without some glorious prophecy to set you free, but where all you can do is the best you can. It’s a trick of storytelling that evades most of us, the ability to express the powerful stories of women in a world that seeks to silence them, to find power in oppression and hope in even the darkest corners of the House of the Dead. She tells stories of birth and death, capturing the humanity of each moment, the intimacy of every breath, while also asking questions about life, freedom, duty, hope and despair. She builds a world out of intimate details, but suffused with magic and wonder, weaving the divine and the mundane into a world you could get lost in. She invites you to be with characters who, for all the magic of the universe, are entirely relatable – women bound by duty and justice, love and fear, trying to find their own paths in a world not of their making. It gave me hope; it made me cry. It’s a fantastically good book. ― Claire North, author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

Praise for Helena Coggan:

The next JK Rowling ― NBC’s Today

‘Vivid and intense. Helena Coggan had me on the edge of my seat ― Amanda Bouchet, bestselling author of The Kingmaker Chronicles

A phenomenal achievement . . . assured, frightening, action-packed ― Observer

Tense, exciting, engaging ― Claire North, author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

A pulsing, labyrinthine, emotionally visceral plot ― Metro

‘The plot pulses with action and the characters are beautifully complex. This is a book that sparks with adrenaline and longing, all the way to the final page ― Rebecca Ross, author of The Queen’s Rising