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A superb writer' EMMA STONEX 'Stylish and raw' ANNE ENRIGHT East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer and servant, has lived for more than four decades in her beloved coastal village of Cleftwater. Everyone knows Martha, but no one has ever heard her speak. One morning, the peaceful atmosphere is shattered by a sinister arrival and Martha becomes a silent witness to a witch-hunt. As a trusted member of the community, she is enlisted to search the bodies of the accused women. But whilst Martha wants to help her friends, she also harbours a dark secret that could cost her own freedom. In desperation, she revives a wax witching doll that she inherited from her mother, in the hope that it will bring protection. But the doll's true powers are unknowable, the tide is turning, and time is running out . . .
| EAN: | 9781399605878 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 09.05.2024 |
| Autoren: | Meyer, Margaret |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 336 |
| Themenüberschrift: | FICTION / Historical |
| Keyword: | historical fiction; literary fiction; small town; rural; witches; witch hunt; books about witches; books set in east anglia; magic; occult; witch trials; debut novel 2023; new reads 2023; solstice; supernatural; contemporary fiction; east anglia; Margaret Meyer; Jessie Burton; Margaret Atwood; Stacey Halls; Stacy Halls; The Familiars; The Miniaturist; The Handmaid's Tale; Jessamine Chan; The School for Good Mothers; The Manningtree Witches; Hannah Kent; Burial Rites; witch novel; new novel about witches; WitchTok; Kirsty Logan; Weyward; Emilia Hart; Kiran Millwood Hargrave; The Mercies; book club books; book club books about witches; mute; inspired by true story; feminist books |
| Fachschema: | Englische Belletristik / Historischer Roman, Erzählung~Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Historischer Roman, Erzählung |
| Fachkategorie: | Historischer Roman~Familienleben~Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik |
| Imprint-Titels: | Phoenix |
| Länge: | 195 mm |
| Breite: | 128 mm |