![]() ![]() When the townsmen arrive in an angry mob, it’s only the intervention of the mayor’s teenage daughter, Persephone, that prevents the early demolition of the manor. Due to missed payments, they’re on the brink of losing Moonshyne Manor, where they live and make magical booze that keeps the men of Critchley Hackle docile (and therefore less prone to witch hunts). Now all are past their prime and barely scraping by. ![]() Marais ( Hum If You Don’t Know the Words) entwines feminism and magic in this occasionally goofy contemporary fantasy about a coven of octogenarian witches who are targeted by men who want to turn their manor house into a recreation center called “Men’s World.” Everything changed for the coven 33 years earlier, when a magical heist gone wrong left one of their number unable to leave the manor and landed another in prison. ![]()
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