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Loading... Weyward: A Novel (edition 2023)by Emilia Hart (Author)
Work InformationWeyward by Emilia Hart
   No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) airgid | May 3, 2024 |  )1  Romonko | May 1, 2024 |  ) LynnMPK | Apr 16, 2024 | “The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.” It was not as good as I expected...too many tropes. Women, abused and trapped in circumstances of men's making- find hidden power through a magical connection to nature. Altha, 1619 is on trial for witchcraft. Violet, abandoned by her family, finds solace and power in discovering her family legacy. Kate, abused and pregnant learns that she is connected, over centuries, to a powerful matriarchy that can use nature to survive, and exact revenge against abusive men. "This wildness inside gives us our name. It was men who marked us so, in the time when language was but a shoot curling from the earth. Weyward, they called us, when we would not submit, would not bend to their will. But we learned to wear the name with pride.” (  ) Chrissylou62 | Apr 11, 2024 | Characters: Kate in the present day running from an abusive husband, Violet in the early 20th century with an abusive father. Altha in the 1600s on trial for witchcraft. The story is told of a family of women who have ability to understand nature. Kind of like Mother Nature women. They seem to only get involved with really abusive males. So there is a lot of misogyny, issues of pregnancy/abortion. I felt the ending was lacking. Still I give the book a low 4 score. ( ) Kristelh | Apr 3, 2024 |
 Thoughtful and at times harrowing, this novel is a successful blend of historical fiction and modern feminism. ...Three generations of women struggle against the bounds of patriarchy in this debut novel... an engaging novel that captures the ways patriarchy has sought to limit women for all of history and the ways women have found to carve out freedom for themselves. AwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
"2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century. 1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder of a local farmer who was stampeded to death by his herd. As a girl, Altha's mother taught her their magic, a kind not rooted in spell casting but in a deep knowledge of the natural world. But unusual women have always been deemed dangerous, and as the evidence for witchcraft is set out against Altha, she knows it will take all of her powers to maintain her freedom. 1942: As World War II rages, Violet is trapped in her family's grand, crumbling estate. Straitjacketed by societal convention, she longs for the robust education her brother receives--and for her mother, long deceased, who was rumored to have gone mad before her death. The only traces Violet has of her are a locket bearing the initial W and the word weyward scratched into the baseboard of her bedroom. Weaving together the stories of three extraordinary women across five centuries, Emilia Hart's Weyward is an enthralling novel of female resilience and the transformative power of the natural world"-- No library descriptions found. 
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