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The Winter Witch

Jennifer Chevalier

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#8063 of 8,085 books · #1081 in Historical Fiction

Longlisted for the Giller Prize (2026).

The Winter Witch was longlisted for the 2026 Giller Prize. Two sisters set sail on a bride ship from Normandy hoping to leave a curse behind them and find better lives in the wilds of 17th-century Quebec, only to meet a mysterious witch who forces them to confront the truth about magic—and their past. Élisabeth Jossard boards a bride ship to New France with her sister Marthe, forced to start a new life after a scandal in her village in Normandy. She's harbouring a dark secret and hopes that by coming to Montreal—the holiest place in the world, she's been told—the saints will hear her pleas and lift the curse that plagues her. When Élisabeth's prayers go unanswered and she is unable to banish the spirit she believes is tormenting her, Marthe encourages her to turn to a powerful witch for help, the enigmatic stowaway Jeanne Roy. But Jeanne has secrets of her own, and when she refuses to help, Élisabeth's resentment kindles a dangerous fire.

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Witchcraft and cursesSisterhoodColonial New France

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