Time is running out, and both their lives are at stake. Told with an infectious passion for the period, Halls’ blend of compelling plot and vividly drawn. She studied journalism at the University of Central Lancashire and has worked as a journalist since the age of 21, writing for publications including The Independent, Fabulous magazine, Stylist and Psychologies. The Familiars (Hardback) Strikingly evoking the heartland of seventeenth-century industrial Lancashire, Stacey Halls’ accomplished debut is a haunting novel of two women struggling to fight against the expectation and superstition of their age. But is there more to Alice than meets the eye? Soon the two women's lives will become inextricably bound together as the legendary trial at Lancaster approaches, and Fleetwood's stomach continues to grow. Stacey Halls was born in 1989 and grew up in Lancashire, England. As Alice is drawn into the witchcraft accusations that are sweeping the North-West, Fleetwood risks everything by trying to help her. Alice promises to help her give birth to a healthy baby, and to prove the physician wrong.

Then she crosses paths by chance with Alice Gray, a young midwife. The Familiars by Stacey Halls - Audiobook - .uk Browse Listen free for 30 days Sample The Familiars By: Stacey Halls Narrated by: Katy Sobey Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins 4.5 (3,826 ratings) Try for £0.00 Thousands of incredible audiobooks and podcasts to take wherever you go. When Fleetwood finds a letter she isn't supposed to read from the doctor who delivered her third stillbirth, she is dealt the crushing blow that she will not survive another pregnancy. The lives of two young women intersect in a novel that imagines the story behind a famous. But as the mistress at Gawthorpe Hall, she still has no living child, and her husband Richard is anxious for an heir. Fleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, married, and pregnant for the fourth time.