Books about Fortune Tellers
Fortune Tellers in fiction
Have you ever had your cards read? Been to a fortune teller of sorts? Afraid of what they might tell you? Well never fear for if you go with someone in a book, there’s no need for alarm. Well, apart from whatever happens to the characters in the books!
The Tarot Reader of Versailles
Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand is a young woman with an extraordinary power – through her tarot cards, she can commune with the dead, revolutionaries and the aristocracy alike seeking her out to divine their fortunes…..
The Square of Sevens – Laura Shepherd Robinson
A girl known only as Red, the daughter of a Cornish fortune-teller, travels with her father making a living predicting fortunes using the ancient method: the Square of Sevens. When her father dies, she enters a life and a way of making a living that is going to get her into all kinds of danger…
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern 
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.
This book is full of fortunes lost and found!
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
This is a really unique story – a recently married woman is gifted a giant dolls house which she fills with miniatures. She orders them from a stranger, a miniaturist, who makes them and delivers them to her door anonymously. The two have never met, they dont know each other, yet the Miniaturist can seemingly foresee what is going to happen to the people in the house where that giant dolls house sits….
The Witches of New York – Ami McKay
“New York had become a city of astonishments” The only trouble is, women who used potions and old wife’s tales to treat their children or others would often be called witches….
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