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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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"East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, ... Read More
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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