The Shetland Witch: Or, Atropos Wants Her Shears Back

Hazel is an archaeologist, working in Unst, on the most northerly coast of the Shetland Isles.She’s digging on Ishabel’s land. Ishabel is a retired professor of botany, and one of the remaining three Shetland witches, along with Maggie the artist who is getting too casual about shape-changing in public, and Avril the wildlife warden with too many birds to guard.Maggie discovers that Hazel is also magical, and she becomes a Shetland witch.Then Atropos arrives, to look for her shears that she sent into hiding to the ends of the earth thousands of years ago. She has to protect them from Zeus.How will the witches protect the islands from a Fate and Zeus?How will Hazel learn how to do magic again?How will she cope with Tornost, a malignant trow with a penchant for eighteenth-century manners?The Shetland Witch is a novel about living in the north, about sisterhood and belonging, and the power that women wield when they work together. As past and present collide, we are reminded that history, however old and mythical, is always with us. Available in paperback, hardback and as an ebook.