Synopsis
Alice Samuel might be old and sharp-tongued, but she's no fool. Visiting her new neighbours in her Fenland village, she finds Squire Throckmorton's family troubled and, she suspects, not as God-fearing as they seem. Yet when one of the daughters accuses her of witchcraft, Alice has no idea of the danger she is in or how quickly matters will escalate.
The Throckmortons' maid Martha, uneasy herself about strange goings-on in the household, is reluctant to believe that Alice is a witch. But as the entire village gets swept up in the frenzied persecution of one of their own, she struggles to find a voice...
Publisher information
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- ISBN: 9781473654655
- Number of pages: 336
- Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 28 mm
- Weight: 240g
- Languages: English
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Based on a true story
Martha has served the Throckmorton family for years, looking after their children, and now the family has moved to a large and comfortable house in a fenla... READ MORE
Highly recommended
A fascinating, atmospheric, and gripping historical fiction about The Witches of Warboys trial. It's the fascinating portrait of an era and of the atmosphe... READ MORE
The witches of Warboys
I love witchy novels, so when I saw this was based loosely on the, unfamiliar to me, true story of the witches of Warboys I had to read it.
It highlights ... READ MORE
Fascinating and emotional
An emotional novel that speaks to our times, drawing on the 16th-century case of the witches of Warboys.