An Evening with Harriet Tyce
Join Harriet Tyce for an evening of stories about her propulsive brand new novel, Witch Trial.
The Sunday Times million-copy bestselling author will be in conversation at St Michael's Church, unpicking her must-read new novel.
In conversation with a leading host, join Harriet as she explores her own history in the courtroom and how she creates characters you can't stop reading about.
About Witch Trial
The page-turning extra-ordinary new novel from Harriet Tyce, author of the bestselling Blood Orange Two teenage girls. One murdered classmate. And a modern-day witch trial that will divide the nation.
When 18-year-old Christian Shaw is found dead in an Edinburgh park, the city reels - and the shock only deepens when police charge her best friends, Eliza Lawson and Isobel Smyth, with her murder. As social media explodes and headlines scream for justice, rumours of bullying spiral into something darker: whispers of rituals, obsession, and a teenage pact gone wrong.
Matthew Phillips, a respected heart surgeon, is reluctantly called for jury duty on the case. But as the trial unfolds - and the girls reveal a chilling defence no one saw coming - he begins to question everything: the motives, the evidence, even his own judgement.
Who's telling the truth?
Who can be trusted?
And what really happened to Christian Shaw? Let the Witch Trial begin
About the Author
Harriet Tyce grew up in Edinburgh and studied English at Oxford University before doing a law conversion course at City University.
She practised as a criminal barrister in London for nearly a decade, and subsequently completed an MA in Creative Writing - Crime Fiction at the University of East Anglia. She lives in north London.
Her first novel, Blood Orange, published in 2019 to huge critical acclaim and her second, third and fourth novels The Lies You Told, It Ends at Midnight and A Lesson in Cruelty, have been Sunday Times bestsellers. Witch Trial is her fifth novel.