A Buzzfeed Best Gift Book of the Year"A dark, atmospheric, and feminist story of three women in New York City's Gilded Age, each determined to thrive in a society hell-bent on keeping them down, and using their coven to do so."    -BuzzfeedINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERRespectable Lady Seeks Dependable Shop Girl. Those averse to magic need not apply. New York in the spring of 1880 is a place alive with wonder and curiosity. Determined to learn the truth about the world, its residents enthusiastically engage in both scientific experimentation and spiritualist pursuits. Séances are the entertainment of choice in exclusive social circles, and many enterprising women-some possessed of true intuitive powers, and some gifted with the art of performance-find work as mediums. Enter Adelaide Thom and Eleanor St. Clair. At their humble teashop, Tea and Sympathy, they provide a place for whispered confessions, secret cures, and spiritual assignations for a select society of ladies, who speak the right words and ask the right questions. But the profile of Tea and Sympathy is about to change with the fortuitous arrival of Beatrice Dunn. When seventeen-year-old Beatrice leaves the safety of her village to answer an ad that reads "Respectable Lady Seeks Dependable Shop Girl. Those averse to magic need not apply, " she has little inclination of what the job will demand of her. Beatrice doesn't know it yet, but she is no ordinary small-town girl; she has great spiritual gifts-ones that will serve as her greatest asset and also place her in grave danger. Under the tutelage of Adelaide and Eleanor, Beatrice comes to harness many of her powers, but not even they can prepare her for the evils lurking in the darkest corners of the city or the courage it will take to face them.

The Witches of New York - A Novel

Dora Rare n’est pas une jeune femme comme les autres. À l’aube de l’âge adulte, ses rêves de mariage et de maternité bifurquent lorsque M’ame B., l’accoucheuse de son village natal de Scots Bay, en Nouvelle-Écosse, lui enseigne les gestes et les remèdes qui feront d’elle une guérisseuse. Pendant que la Première Guerre mondiale fait rage, Dora mène ses propres combats : grossesses et accouchements difficiles, problèmes de fertilité, insatisfaction sexuelle. Les occasions de mettre à profit ses dons de sage-femme sont nombreuses. Pourtant, son engagement ne plaît pas à tout le monde – aux médecins, surtout, qui y voient un obstacle à leur nouvelle pratique en obstétrique – et cela va lui causer de graves ennuis.Immense succès en version originale anglaise (250 000 exemplaires vendus), L’accoucheuse de Scots Bay dépeint les réalités de la vie en milieu rural au Canada atlantique au début du siècle dernier et laisse entrevoir les luttes que devront mener les femmes pour protéger leurs acquis et étendre leurs droits, en premier lieu, celui de disposer de leur corps.

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