Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
by Grady Hendrix
Grady Hendrix · 2024 · 496 pages
ISBN 9780593548981
*‘I did an evil thing to be put in here, and I’m going to have to do an evil thing to get out.’* They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened. Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. There, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. Rose, a hippie who insists…
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