The Shetland Witch

The Shetland Witch is a novel about magic, sisterhood and learning to be human. ‘An entertaining mash-up between classical Greek mythology and Shetland folklore’ (Goodreads).

Hazel is an archaeologist, working in Unst, on the most northerly coast of the Shetland Isles.

Ishabel is a retired professor of botany, and a Shetland witch, 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.

Then Maggie discovers that Hazel is also magical, and invites her to become 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?