Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman by Sylvia Townsend Warner

even*cleveland

“After spending two decades of her life as a put-upon spinster aunt, Laura Willowes decides to make a change, sparked by a bundle of greenery she picks up in a shop. To the befuddlement of her staid family, she ups sticks and moves to a remote English village called Great Mop, where she makes a deal with the devil to finally have the life she wants, which involves witchcraft, a cat familiar named V”

Elizabeth Sullivan

“Are you and your friends about to go through peri-menopause? Do what I did and get multiple copies of this ancient text and pass them around. How to go to the Devil: an instruction manual. Also not a bad book for Halloween.”

Elsa de Wolfe

@elsadewolfe