Ironically, she found she saw even less of him than when she had been living 60 miles away. “He was working nights and I was commuting to work, so we could go a whole week when there was always one of us asleep in the bed but never [both] at the same time. It was such a weird way to live, being in the same space as him but not actually seeing each other.” Nobody can tell a rape survivor how to behave – there are a plethora of reasons why speaking out may not be the right thing to do,” she says. “The one thing you have afterwards is control over how you tell your story. For me, the process of writing has been very empowering.” Alice O’Keeffe Beth O’Leary: ‘I started to notice how many coffee mugs there were by the sink’ Los Angeles, California. Xanther and Anwar get home, and Astair panics when she sees that Xanther is missing her glasses and she is bleeding. She assumes Xanther has had another seizure and is confused by the fact that Anwar and Xanther are smiling. She becomes frustrated when Xanther looks at her incredulously and slips by her into the house. She asks if the cat is a Chihuahua and angrily asks where the Akita is. She starts to tear up, the illusion shattering as she realizes finally that the creature Xanther was holding is a cat. She hates the cat on sight, but she is the only one who senses that something about it is eerie. Shape shifting was not unheard of where familiars were concerned. Satan the cat for instance, after consultation with his impoverished mistress, was turned into a toad so that Agnes could sell the wool that the familiar lay on. This same spirit was also seen in the form of a dog, terrorising young Agnes Browne and threatening to kill her. Bane, Theresa. (2012). Encyclopedia of Demons in World Religions and Cultures. Jefferson: McFarland. p.21. ISBN 978-0-7864-8894-0.

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The Familiarswritten by Stacey Halls is a story based on a true historical timeline and real-life people, namely Fleetwood Shuttleworth born in 1595, who was a woman of gentry and mistress at Gawthorpe Hall. It is a work of fiction based on the premise of the Pendle witch trial in Lancaster 1612 and sadly highlights the plight of women disproportionately targeted as part of witch hunts during the time period set. Using her studies into the role of witchcraft and magic in Britain during the Early Modern period as a starting point, the historian Emma Wilby examined the relationship that familiar spirits allegedly had with the witches and cunning-folk in this period. The second manner in which the familiar spirit commonly appeared to magical practitioners in Britain was that they would be given to a person by a pre-existing individual, who was sometimes a family member and at other times a more powerful spirit. For instance, the alleged witch Margaret Ley from Liverpool claimed, in 1667, that she had been given her familiar spirit by her mother when she died, while the Leicestershire cunning-woman Joan Willimot related, in 1618, that a mysterious figure whom she only referred to as her "master", "willed her to open her mouth and he would blow into her a fairy which should do her good. And that she open her mouth, and that presently after blowing, there came out of her mouth a spirit which stood upon the ground in the shape and form of a woman." [15]

A theme in the book, she says, is the pressure Palestinians feel to somehow speak for their whole country. “This is a struggle many Palestinians face: they don’t want to be defined in this way, to have to be representative. There is no single Palestinian experience. The life of a Palestinian living in Nablus is very different from a Palestinian living in Gaza or Jerusalem. Different from living in Jaffa, Syria or Lebanon. I mean, I’m obviously a mix, but I’m more complex than that, and I don’t think I can be representative in any way.” This book gets under your skin! So pacy and brilliantly creepy - Juliet West, author of THE FAITHFUL AND BEFORE THE FALL The Familiars is a series of children's fantasy books written by Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson. The Familiars is also the title of the first book in the series, featuring familiars, magical animal companions to a wizard or witch. The series consists of 4 books, published between 2010 and 2013 by HarperCollins. Dalton, an apprentice wizard and Skylar's loyal, as well as the oldest of Kalstaff's three apprentices.

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Los Angeles, California. Xanther begins May 10 with her father Anwar knowing that at the end of the day he plans to give her a "big surprise" he and Astair have been planning for her. In the morning she and Anwar go to breakfast together, and in the car on the way she almost has a seizure while looking out into the rain, but she lies to Anwar about it for fear of worrying him. Instead she tells him she was daydreaming about her biological father, Dov. Fluent, well paced and beautifully imagined, this is a real treat for anyone who enjoys historical fiction- and also for all those who do not normally choose this genre. Highly recommend, and Halls is definitely a writer to watch - BibliomaniacA repeating theme of this series is the oneness of all things and the many links between people throughout the world despite their differences. Danielewski's characters span multiple races, nationalities, and they speak a variety of languages, including Mexican Spanish, Egyptian Arabic, Armenian, Turkish, Singlish, Mandarin, and Russian. They are also from disparate places; in this first volume the main characters begin in Los Angeles, Marfa, El Tajín, and Singapore. But connections are already forming between them—for instance, Xanther has Tian Li's cat, Cas' friend Sorcerer knows Anwar and Xanther, and Isandòrno and Luther both work with Teyo. Many of the characters of The Familiar also hear the same strangely familiar sound: a cat's yowl. It was only when her youngest started secondary school that she felt able to finally start writing. What Red Was has allowed Price not only to explore her own legacy of trauma, but also to find a way of speaking out – the pros and cons of which are explored in the book.

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Throughout most of the third book, Gilbert lives in fear of a vision of Skylar supposedly killing him. Clues start to add up, things get closer and closer, and Gilbert realizes he won't escape and comes to terms with it... and it's actually Paksahara, shapeshifted to look like Gilbert, that Skylar kills.A. P. Elkin, Aboriginal men of high degree. Initiation and Sorcery in the World's Oldest Tradition, 1945, 48. A spiritist medium allegedly loses consciousness and passes under control of some external force (called a "control spirit"), for the supposed transmission of communications from the dead, or messages for an individual or a group. Pierre A. Riffard, Dictionnaire de l’ésotérisme, Paris: Payot, 1983, p. 132; Nouveau dictionnaire de l’ésotérisme, Paris: Payot, 2008, pp. 114–115. About 10 years ago she gave up law to concentrate on being a stay-at-home mother. “Having it all is a mantra the modern woman is sold, supposedly to make us feel better, but it can make you feel like a failure when you don’t have that balance, when you’re feeling burnt out and short-changed.”