Sally Walker
Sally Walker lives on the most westerly windswept tip of England – a wild ancient land of moor and shore, where magic still lingers.
A Westerly Wind brings Witches is her debut novel, having been tied down with all the muggle business of life – working over the long years as a schoolteacher, nurse, family support at a Women’s Refuge, playbus worker with traveller and gypsy children (that one was fun!) amongst such other jobs which keep us sensibly on the ground.
But she writes from a secret life of her own experiences as a Cornish witch – in one of the many covens of a thriving local pagan community, unseen by the summer holiday makers, lurking in shadows cast by a full moon!
Writing about the cycles of history, telling and retelling our stories over and over, delving into a time when women lost their role in folk religion, hung or burnt all across Europe and America in their thousands, this novel honours The Burning Times lest we ever forget. Digging up old roots, the author is passionate to unearth the lost voices of those who have been silenced and have almost disappeared into a smothered herstory. Peering past the acceptable tales of our time, pulling the threads together to weave our way into another story altogether.
