Now She is Witch: ‘Myth-making at its best‘ Val McDermid

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I was looking forward to sinking into her newest novel, but I found myself distanced from it throughout. Lux’s fate, though, lies elsewhere, up north where “blue glaciers cast up glassy and gleaming on a shore of black sand”.

Although Logan’s take on it strikes some of the same beats, she made it feel fresher, darker and yet more tender than any I’ve read before. In this witch story unlike any other, Lux and Else join forces to take their revenge on a powerful man. Now She Is Witch meditates on these issues and Logan's stance is explicitly made clear, yet it never feels like it's too much. I HATE the myth of the female herbalist/midwife/abortionist who only tried to help the poor villagers and then gets murdered because men hate women with agency.Now She is Witch has me sleeping easy again in the knowledge that I can keep my self-appointed position as chair of the unofficial Kirsty Logan fanclub.

The arrival of a mysterious stranger named Else, just as a group of locals look set to attack Lux in her garden, starts the novel off with a bang.Honestly, what I wouldn't give for a sliver, a morsel, a grain of sand in the oyster of this woman's writing-capability. Having lost not just her mother, but her home and roots to accusations of witchcraft, Lux sets of on a journey into the woods. Not just as a person who is always trying to heal and learn from everything around her, but as an artist. As they travel we get to know Lux’s past and we meet many different and colourful characters who to me felt almost like; ghosts.