At first blush, you might turn up your nose at the premise of The Witches of Lychford, in which a group of slightly-misfit women in a quiet British town find themselves arrayed against the forces of darkness in the form of a proposed new superstore whose placement will (though most of the town does not realize it) open up the gates that separate our world from the world of the fairies. Like, you could see that premise and think it seemed heavy-handed. However, Paul Cornell — a veteran writer on Doctor Who, among other things, responsible for some of my…
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