Now She is Witch
  • Published: 9 January 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529116113
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $26.00

Now She is Witch

‘Myth-making at its best‘ Val McDermid

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Some of what they say about witches is true. A witch story unlike any other, from one of the UK's most outstanding LGBT writers.

She dug her mother's grave in the poison garden so it would stay hidden...

Lux has lost everything when Else finds her, alone in the woods. Her family, her lover, her home - all burned. The world is suspicious of women like her. But Lux is cunning; she knows how to exploit people's expectations, how to blend into the background. And she knows a lot about poisons.

Else has not found Lux by accident. She needs her help to seek revenge against the man who wronged her, and together they pursue him north. But on their hunt they will uncover dark secrets that entangle them with dangerous adversaries.

From the snowy winter woods to the bright midnight sun; from lost and powerless to finding your path, Now She is Witch conjures a world of violence and beauty - a world where women grasp at power through witchcraft, sexuality and performance, and most of all through throwing each other to the wolves.

This is a witch story unlike any other.
  • Published: 9 January 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529116113
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

Kirsty Logan

Kirsty Logan is a professional daydreamer. Her first story collection, The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales, won the Scott Prize, the Polari First Book Prize and the Saboteur Award. Her first novel, The Gracekeepers, won a Lambda Literary Award and was selected for the Radio 2 Book Club and the Waterstones Book Club. A Portable Shelter won the Gavin Wallace Fellowship and Things We Say in the Dark, a collection of feminist horror stories, was optioned for TV. Her short fiction and poetry have been translated into Japanese, Spanish, Italian and Chinese, adapted for stage, recorded for radio and exhibited in galleries. She lives in Glasgow with her family.

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Praise for Now She is Witch

A hugely compelling book that seeks to rewrite what we think about witches. Dark, luscious prose wrapped around ideas that have enormous contemporary relevance. Kirsty Logan is at the height of her powers

Heather Parry

Powerful, beautiful and deeply unsettling. The prose is magical

Sally Magnusson

Frequently compared to Angela Carter for her luxuriant imagination and love of fairytales, Logan shifts from the uncanny to the terrifying in her new collection

Guardian, on Things We Say in the Dark

Powerful, imaginative, compelling - this is myth-making at its best

Val McDermid

Now She is Witch is a beautiful, atmospheric, resonant tale that follows Lux and Else as they fight to be heard and to tell their own stories. Kirsty Logan shows the limited choices left to these women, and draws the reader into their struggles to take control of their own lives.

Elizabeth Lee, author of CUNNING WOMEN

A dark conjuring of a book: angry, powerful, hypnotic, told in prose of dazzling power.

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Spooky, timeless, feminist, inventive, unsettling... this book is every bit as atmospheric and compelling as you'd hope.

Viv Groskop

Beautiful......fierce and dream-like...powerful...compelling, haunting, and enriching

Scotsman

An impassioned reclaiming of female desire. Stuffed, Russian-doll like, with stories...an absorbingly atmospheric adventure

Daily Mail

Now She Is Witch is a meticulously researched piece of fantasy

Skinny

Kirsty Logan is one of the darkest and most playful of writers working right now

Stylist, *Books to Look Out For 2023*

Logan builds Lux's world with an eye for striking detail...the images snap and sizzle with portent and possibility

Guardian

Kirsty Logan's mesmerising and evocative novel represents an imaginative triumph in this new subgenre [of "witch lit"]... There are echoes of everything from the Brothers Grimm to Angela Carter in Logan's deceptively simple storytelling

Observer

One of our national writing treasures, Kirsty Logan's latest tale is a deeply atmospheric, sometimes gory but ultimately uplifting... a story that will hold you tight and not let go

Stylist

What Logan brings to her story is a fierce and dream-like poetry that creates layer upon layer of memorable moments and images

Scotsman, *Summer Reads of 2023*

Logan…captures the mood of the times with a fearful precision… [she] brings…a fierce and dream-like poetry that creates layer upon layer of memorable moments and images… [Now She Is Witch is] compelling, haunting, and enriching

Scotsman, *Books of the Year*