Margaret Meyer: The Witching Tide
The Witching Tide
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EUR 17,95*
- Scribner Book Company, 10/2024
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781668011379
- Bestellnummer: 11762241
- Umfang: 352 Seiten
- Gewicht: 259 g
- Maße: 213 x 140 mm
- Stärke: 20 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 1.10.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Named a best historical novel of the year by The New York Times Book Review and “reminiscent of both The Scarlet Letter and Hamnet” (Jezebel), The Witching Tide is a powerful debut inspired by the true events behind a deadly witch hunt in 17th-century England.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. A “witchfinder,” Silas Makepeace has been blazing a trail of destruction along the coast, and his arrival in Cleftwater strikes fear into the heart of the community. Within a day, local women are being detained. Martha is enlisted to search the accused women for “devil’s marks,” and finds herself a silent witness to the hunt.
Martha 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…
Set over the course of a few weeks that forever changed history, and for readers of Hilary Mantel and Margaret Atwood, The Witching Tide “illuminates a dark historical period and cautions against its recreation” (Kirkus Reviews).
Margaret Meyer
The Witching Tide
EUR 17,95*