Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award
One of Granta's Best Young British Novelists
From the acclaimed author of What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours,
Gingerbread, and Peaces
There's something strange about the Silver family house in the
closed-off town of Dover, England. Grand and cavernous with hidden
passages and buried secrets, it's been home to four generations of
Silver women--Anna, Jennifer, Lily, and now Miranda, who has lived in
the house with her twin brother, Eliot, ever since their father
converted it to a bed-and-breakfast. The Silver women have always had a
strong connection, a pull over one another that reaches across time and
space, and when Lily, Miranda's mother, passes away suddenly while on a
trip abroad, Miranda begins suffering strange ailments. An eating
disorder starves her. She begins hearing voices. When she brings a
friend home, Dover's hostility toward outsiders physically manifests
within the four walls of the Silver house, and the lives of everyone
inside are irrevocably changed. At once an unforgettable mystery and a
meditation on race, nationality, and family legacies, White is for
Witching is a boldly original, terrifying, and elegant novel by a
prodigious talent.