The witching tide : a novel / Margaret Meyer.
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- ISBN: 9781668011362 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 327 p. ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2023.
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Summary, etc.: | "East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, ... Read More |
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Subject: | Mute persons > Fiction. Healers > Fiction. Midwives > Fiction. Witch hunting > Fiction. East Anglia (England) > Fiction. Great Britain > History > Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Canadian fiction. First novel. |
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..."--
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