Finbar Hawkins

Finbar Hawkins is a British author of young adult fiction. Ghost is a novel that blends historical fiction with elements of supernatural horror and feminist storytelling, following two sisters in seventeenth-century England navigating a world of witch hunts, injustice and the power of female solidarity. The novel has been praised for its atmospheric writing, its fierce and compelling young protagonists and its engagement with the history of the persecution of women accused of witchcraft. Hawkins creates a narrative that is both historically grounded and emotionally resonant, using the witch trial setting to explore themes of power, sisterhood and resistance that remain relevant today. His audiobooks and books offer young adult readers darkly compelling historical fiction with a strong feminist perspective.