Mary Sharratt

Daughters of the Witching Hill (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the author of The Dark Lady, a novel of England's trial of the Pendle witches of 1612 and a family struggling to survive the hysteria.

Bess Southerns, an impoverished widow living in Pendle Forest, is haunted by visions and gains a reputation as a cunning woman. Drawing on the Catholic folk magic of her youth, Bess heals the sick and foretells the future. As she ages, she instructs her granddaughter, Alizon, in her craft, as well as her best friend, who ultimately turns to dark magic. When a peddler suffers a stroke after exchanging harsh words with Alizon, a local magistrate, eager to make his name as a witch finder, plays neighbors and family members against one another until suspicion and paranoia reach frenzied heights.

This e-book includes a sample chapter of Illuminations.

"Daughters of the Witching Hill offers a fresh approach with witches who believe in their own power and yet, in many ways, are still innocent. Sharratt's readers-like the magistrate who took the women's confessions-are likely to be spellbound by their stories."-San Francisco Chronicle

"Full of the reality of the day, this story is stark and real, but Sharratt's descriptions of landscape and the daily life of the poor at the time are rich enough to feed the senses. The author weaves this vast canvas of changing culture into the personal stories of these women, and in the process transports us to a distant land, a distant time-and deep into the story of people we sympathize with and care about."-Minneapolis Star-Tribune

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mariner Books
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780547488486
• Artikelnr.: 39528621

Autorenporträt

MARY SHARRATT is an American writer who has lived in the Pendle region of Lancashire, England, for the past seven years. Her inspiration for Daughters of the Witching Hill arose directly from the wild, brooding landscape: the true story of the Pendle witches unfolded almost literally in her backyard. All the major characters and events portrayed in the novel are drawn from court clerk Thomas Potts's account of the 1612 Lancashire witch trials, in which seven women and two men from Pendle Forest were hanged as witches. The author of the critically acclaimed novels Summit Avenue, The Real Minerva, and The Vanishing Point, Sharratt is also the coeditor of the subversive fiction anthology Bitch Lit, a celebration of female antiheroes, strong women who break all the rules.