| Edition |
First Scribner hardcover edition. |
| Description |
327 pages ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
"East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer, and servant, has lived peacefully for more than four decades in her beloved seaside village of Cleftwater. Having lost her voice as a child, Martha has not spoken a word in years. One autumn morning, a sinister newcomer appears in town. The witchfinder, Silas Makepeace, has been blazing a trail of destruction along the coast, and now has Cleftwater in his sights. His arrival strikes fear into the heart of the community. Within a day, local women are being captured and detained, and Martha finds herself a silent witness to the hunt. Powerless to protest, Martha is enlisted to search the accused women for "devil's marks." She is caught between suspicion and betrayal; between shielding herself or condemning the women of the village. In desperation, she revives a wax witching doll that belonged to her mother, in the hope that it will bring protection. But the doll's true powers are unknowable, Martha harbors a terrible secret, and the gallows are looming..."-- Publisher's description. |
| Subject |
Mute persons -- Fiction.
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Healers -- Fiction.
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Midwives -- Fiction.
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Witch hunting -- Fiction.
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East Anglia (England) -- Fiction.
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Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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Novels.
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| ISBN |
9781668011362 (hardcover) |
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1668011360 (hardcover) |
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