The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs_A Novel

✍ Scribed by Howe, Katherine

• Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 237 KB
• Series: Physick Book 2
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 1250304873

✦ Synopsis

New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe returns to the world of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane with a bewitching story of a New England history professor who must race against time to free her family from a curse
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Connie Goodwin is an expert on America’s fractured past with witchcraft. A young, tenure-track professor in Boston, she’s earned career success by studying the history of magic in colonial America—especially women’s home recipes and medicines—and by exposing society's threats against women fluent in those skills. But beyond her studies, Connie harbors a secret: She is the direct descendant of a woman tried as a witch in Salem, an ancestor whose abilities were far more magical than the historical record shows. When a hint from her mother and clues from her research lead Connie to the shocking realization that her partner’s life is in danger, she must race to solve the mystery behind a hundreds’-years-long deadly curse. Flashing back through American history to the lives of certain supernaturally gifted women, _The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs affectingly reveals not only the special bond that unites one particular matriarchal line, but also explores the many challenges to women’s survival across the decades—and the risks some women are forced to take to protect what they love most. **

Review

" The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs combines exacting historical research with compelling, imaginative storytelling. There is real magic at work in this book, which illuminates, like a candle in the dark, the enduring courage, wisdom, and searing power of women, passed down through countless generations."
--Kathleen Kent, New York Times bestselling author of _The Heretic's Daughter** _"Katherine Howe is back and in fine, bewitching form. I relished criss-crossing centuries as Connie Goodwin--equal parts scholar, sleuth, and sorceress--tackles the mystery of a curse on the women of her notorious lineage, racing to break the spell before it breaks her."
--Julia Glass, National Book Award-winning author of Three Junes and A House Among the Trees**

About the Author

Katherine Howe is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane and The House of Velvet and Glass , as well as the young adult novels, Conversion and T he Appearance of Annie van Sinderen. She served as editor of The Penguin Book of Witches and her fiction has been translated into over twenty languages. Descended from three women who were tried for witchcraft in Salem, she and her family live in New England and New York City, where she is at work on her next novel.

✦ Subjects

College teachers -- Fiction