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    THE WITCHES OF LITERATURE

    May 30, 2023 2 minutes

    Nettle & Bone

    T. Kingfisher

    Tor Books

    T. KINGFISHER challenges the idea of the “wicked witch” through the gravewitch in her subversive fairy tale Nettle & Bone. The nameless dust-wife—part witch, part gravedigger—is all too willing to help the novel’s heroine on her quest to kill an abusive prince with the aid of her magic and her hilarious grumpiness, leaving behind her graveyard abode to do so.

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