Description: "Witty, eerie, tender." -- John Updike. In this early feminist classic, a middle-aged London spinster escapes her controlling family by moving to the country, becoming a witch, and securing her freedom by making a pact with Satan.
Review Quotes: A great shout of life and individuality.--Justine Jordan, Guardian
The book I'll be pressing into people's hands forever is Lolly Willowes [. . .] Starting as a straightforward, albeit beautifully written family saga, it tips suddenly into extraordinary, lucid wildness--Helen Macdonald, The New York Times Book Review Sylvia Townsend Warner moves with sombre confidence into the realm of the supernatural, and her prose, in its simple, abrupt evocations, has something preternatural about it--John Updike My comfort read--Tracey Thorn