The Manningtree witches : a novel / A. K. Blakemore.
Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in this beguiling debut novel that brilliantly brings to life the residents of a small English town in the grip of the seventeenth-century witch trials and the young woman tasked with saving them all from themselves. England, 1643. Puritanical fervor has gripped the nation. And in Manningtree, a town depleted of men since the wars began, the hot terror of damnation burns in the hearts of women left to their own devices. Rebecca West, fatherless and husbandless, chafes against the drudgery of her days, livened only occasionally by her infatuation with the handsome young clerk John Edes. But then a newcomer, Matthew Hopkins, arrives. A mysterious, pious figure dressed from head to toe in black, he takes over the Thorn Inn and begins to ask questions about what the women on the margins of this diminished community are up to. Dangerous rumors of covens, pacts, and bodily wants have begun to hang over women like Rebecca--and the future is as frightening as it is thrilling. Brimming with contemporary energy and resonance, The Manningtree Witches plunges its readers into the fever and menace of the English witch trials, where suspicion, mistrust, and betrayal run amok as a nation's arrogant male institutions start to realize that the very people they've suppressed for so long may be about to rise up and claim their freedom.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781646220649
- Physical Description: 310 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Catapult, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
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Subject: | Sexism in witchcraft trials > Fiction. Sex role > Fiction. Magic > Fiction. Great Britain > History > Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Magic realist fiction. Paranormal fiction. Romance fiction. |
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