Stacey Halls writes historical fiction about women living under legal, medical and social pressures in earlier Britain. The Familiars is set around the Pendle witch trials and follows Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a pregnant gentlewoman whose relationship with a midwife becomes dangerous as accusations spread. The Foundling moves to Georgian London and the Foundling Hospital, where a mother returning to reclaim her child discovers that someone else has already taken her. Mrs England places a nurse inside an Edwardian Yorkshire household whose respectable surface hides unsettling family dynamics, while The Household centres on a refuge for women leaving prison. Halls's novels are atmospheric, plot-led and grounded in domestic work, childbirth, class and institutional power. They fit British historical fiction, women's history and accessible literary mystery. Read more Less
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