\'These enchanting words make the world feel less broken\' - Emma Mitchell, author of The Wild Remedy\'Part-primer, part-chronicle; a fresh and personal account of a contemporary witch\'s year told with lucidity and verve\' - Eley Williams, author of The Liar\'s Dictionary\'Witches occupy a clear place in contemporary imagination.
Every reader will find themselves under her spell\' - Nancy Campbell, author of The Library of Ice.
Month by month, Alice walks us through everyday magic for extraordinary times.\'A Spell in the Wild is a beautiful and intimate set of reflections on the persistence and necessity of magic, not just in our mythologies but our in daily accommodations with the changing natural world\' - Paraic O\'Donnell\'The wise words in A Spell in the Wild offer solace for our hearts and homes in a changing world.
Magic is back.
Alice describes what she practises as \'intersectional, accessible\' witchcraft - it\'s about the magic you can find in an overgrown snicket or a sixth floor stairwell; whatever your gender; whether you\'re able to climb a mountain or can\'t leave the house.
And as the world becomes ever more complicated and we face ecological, political, social and global health crises, witchcraft is experiencing a resurgence.
Where \'witch\' was once a dangerous - and often deadly - accusation, it is now a proud self-definition.
They are here, because they must be needed...\'In A Spell in the Wild, Alice Tarbuck explores what it means to be a witch today.
They\'re feminist, independent, invested in self-care and care for the world.
Witches are back.
But they are moving out of history, too.
They haunt the footnotes of history - from medieval witches burning at the stake to the lurid glamour of the 1970s witchcraft revival.
We can see them, emerging shadowy, from the corners of the past: mad, glamorous, difficult, strange. \'These enchanting words make the world feel less broken\' - Emma Mitchell, author of The Wild Remedy\'Part-primer, part-chronicle; a fresh and personal account of a contemporary witch\'s year told with lucidity and verve\' - Eley Williams, author of The Liar\'s Dictionary\'Witches occupy a clear place in contemporary imagination
