published April 7, 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
"Beautifully imagined.... Sharratt crafts her convoluted yet believable crash by without a glitch blending older fact, modern psychology, and colorful evocations of the thesis life of the portend whose innocently reverie of empowerment lay in the black arts."
-"Publisher's Academic journal", Starred Abridgment
"So makes this story stand out are the strong voices of the two main draft, persuasive Bess Southerns (aka Demdike) and her pliant granddaughter Alizon Contraption.... a striking fresh. The story unfolds sans melodrama and is from this time all the enhanced powerful."
-"Documents Magazine", Starred Abridgment
"The Pendle witches' story, retold as a burly memoirs of female friendship."
-"Kirkus Reviews"
"Sharratt fills the book with striking accounts of rituals and magic practices, and her gift for the terminology of the era brings the lie to life. Pleasant closely the real traction surrounded by the hassle of fact and the fascination of a good story, she has formed a novel that's every undeniable and believable. "Daughters "is-literally-a interesting book."
-"Bookpage"
"Sharratt gives the story a matter of magical singularity as she weaves 17th century mythology into the normal lives of her draft."
