![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They are witches without the craft of witches, wayward women in a world that “binds and bridles” wayward women. They are estranged from one another, broken, impotent, and invisible, all having suffered at the brutal hands of an abusive father. I read Harrow’s anecdotal aside as apt allegory, given that Nobody is who the three Eastwood sisters are at the start of Harrow’s novel, a witch-tale about witch-tales, and the author’s first novel following the Hugo-award-winning portal fantasy The Ten Thousand Doors of January.īella, Agnes, and Juniper Eastwood are nobodies. When the man was asked later who’d cursed him so that she could be found, he exclaimed, Nobody! It was Nobody! The woman was in fact a witch, because as Harrow says, “behind every witch is a woman wronged.” The witch cursed the man, who, in dismay, asked who she was. Harrow tells us in The Once and Future Witches, a man wronged a woman. ![]()
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