Join us at Berkelouw Books in Paddington on Thursday the 13th of August as we welcome Lucianne Tonti who will be In Conversation with Lauren Sams on her new and highly anticipated book Good Witch.

 

About the Book

 

A paradigm-shifting book that asks what the world might be like if divine feminine power had never been devalued. And shows us how it is being reclaimed.

 

Gardener. Gossip. Spinster. Healer. Nymph . . . Witch.

 

For centuries, the work of women was viewed with suspicion. Their knowledge – of bodies, nature, and community – posed a threat to a masculine order. To men who saw them as something to be contained and controlled.

 

Good Witch takes us back hundreds of years to the dark times when witch hunts were sweeping Europe and North America. From Salem to England, Scotland to the northern corners of Norway, tens of thousands of women were persecuted, prosecuted and killed.

 

Today, we can still feel the legacy of the witch hunts: In the way the natural world has been degraded. In the way humans have become disengaged from the things that make us truly happy. A campaign of disenchantment has sought to disconnect us from the earth – and from each other.

 

But enchantment was never truly lost.

 

Across the globe, women are reclaiming the skills, practices and stories that masculine societies have tried so hard to diminish or dismiss. Here, Tonti shows us how a return to feminine power is what the world desperately needs now, more than ever.

 

About Lucianne Tonti

 

Lucianne is a regenerative fashion consultant and journalist. She is the fashion editor of The Saturday Paper, the sustainability editor at large for Elle Australia and a contributor to The Guardian where her column Closet Clinic has been read over 9 million times. Her award-winning book Sundressed: Natural Fibres and the Future of Fashion was published in 2022. It is currently being developed into a docuseries by Tilt Media. Her writing also appears in Vogue Business, The Monthly, The Griffith Review, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. She has a Bachelor of Communication from RMIT, a post-graduate diploma in Political Science and a Juris Doctor of Law from the University of Melbourne.

 

About Lauren Sams

 

Lauren Sams is the editor of Fin Magazine, The Australian Financial Review’s luxury quarterly edition. She is also the deputy editor at The Australian Financial Review Magazine and the fashion editor. She writes about the business of fashion and beauty.