To the uninitiated, Savannah shows only her bright face and genteel manner. Those who know her well, though, can see beyond her colonial trappings and small-city charm to a world where witchcraft is respected, Hoodoo is feared, and spirits linger. Mercy Taylor is all too familiar with the supernatur
The Witching Tide : A Novel
β Scribed by Margaret Meyer
- Book ID
- 112876189
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781668011386
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
**"Stylish and raw...seizes the reader's sympathy and does not let go." βAnne Enright, Booker Prizeβ**winning author of The Gathering
For readers of Margaret Atwood and Hilary Mantel, an immersive literary debut inspired by historical eventsβa deadly witch hunt in 17th-century Englandβthat 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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