Vampires and ghosts have long haunted popular fiction, but now a string of new releases is focusing on marginalised women with hidden powers
“Witches are definitely a big thing, which is exciting and fun,” said Phoebe Morgan, a publisher at Hodder Fiction, “but it also has something to do with a sense that women’s rights are in danger of being stripped away again, with things like the overturningin America. These books are often concerned with pregnancy, abortion and abuse, as well as magic.”
Morgan suspects the historical side of the trend offers escape, as well as a form of explanation. “We often try to explain the present by looking to the past.As our last three years have been plagued by Covid, war, the cost of living crisis and tumultuous politics, it’s natural we should look to fantasy and witchcraft as escape,” she said.– in the past, women were burned at the stake but now it is trial by Twitter.”, from Phoenix.
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