MARIA LEWIS
SOMETIMES, IT TAKES A WHILE FOR THE world to catch up – it was 2014 when Maria Lewis pitched the idea of The Witch Who Courted Death. While she sold Who’s Afraid?, her much acclaimed novel about a female werewolf and its sequel Who’s Afraid Too?, publishers weren’t keen on the idea of an urban fantasy where, to quote Lewis, “The main character was a queer woman with a limb difference.”
Fast-forward five years and, while progress has often been maddeningly
