Joy Stonehouse

Witch-bottles and Windlestraws

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

It's November 1703 and The Great Storm is set to hit Filey Bay on the Yorkshire coast. The people of Reighton have a wedding to celebrate, and sit in church unaware of the impending storm that will affect their lives. Inspired by parish records, Witch-bottles and Windlestraws is the story of the Jordan family and their farming community. Courtships, betrayal, unrequited love and an inexplicable death are woven into a tapestry of 18th Century life and customs and the ever-challenging weather. Characters can turn to the Church for help, or resort to superstition and ancient remedies. Through the heat of August's long harvest days or the hours spent making butter and cheese in the cool of the milkhouse, or through the seemingly never-ending dark winters when the village is cut off by deep snow and ice, life and death are played out in the stark realities of an unforgiving era.

Produktdetails

• A Story of Reighton, Yorkshire 1703 to 1709 Nr.1
• Verlag: Joy Gelsthorpe
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 275g
• ISBN-13: 9781913036393
• ISBN-10: 1913036391
• Artikelnr.: 58059884

Autorenporträt

Joy's father came from Filey and married Gladys Jordan, a descendant of the Jordan farming family in nearby Reighton. As soon as she retired, she began to research the area and the Jordans' history. She found the parish records fascinating, and they provided the information for a series of novels about the whole village. Joy lives with her partner in Hornsea on the East Yorkshire coast, and finds inspiration by walking along the cliffs and beaches in all weathers.