\'A great shout of life and individuality ... her prose, in its simple, abrupt evocations, has something preternatural about it\' John Updike. tips suddenly into extraordinary, lucid wildness\' Helen McDonald\'Witty, eerie, tender ...
It tells the story of a woman who rejects the life that society has fixed for her in favour of freedom ... . .
But Lolly has a greater, far darker calling than family: witchcraft.\'The book I\'ll be pressing into people\'s hands forever .
When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London and moving, alone, to the depths of the countryside, her overbearing relatives are horrified. an act of defiance that gladdens the soul\' GuardianLolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. \'A great shout of life and individuality ..
