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The Witching Tide : A Novel

✍ Scribed by Margaret Meyer


Book ID
112876189
Publisher
Scribner
Year
2023
Tongue
English
Weight
2 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781668011386

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✦ Synopsis


**"Stylish and raw...seizes the reader's sympathy and does not let go." β€”Anne Enright, Booker Prize–**winning author of The Gathering
For readers of Margaret Atwood and Hilary Mantel, an immersive literary debut inspired by historical eventsβ€”a deadly witch hunt in 17th-century Englandβ€”that claimed many innocent lives.
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...


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