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The witchfinder's sister : a novel / Beth Underdown.
Van Pelt Library PR6071.N34 W58 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Underdown, Beth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hopkins, Matthew, -1647--Fiction.
- Hopkins, Matthew.
- Hopkins, Matthew, -1647.
- Witch hunting--England--History--17th century--Fiction.
- Witch hunting.
- Women--England--History--17th century--Fiction.
- Women.
- Siblings--Fiction.
- Siblings.
- Brothers and sisters.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- England.
- Family secrets--Fiction.
- Family secrets.
- Great Britain--History--Charles I, 1625-1649--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Biographical fiction.
- History.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 312 pages : map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ballantine Books, [2017]
- Summary:
- "A debut literary historical thriller based on the witch hunts in 1640's England--the most intense in English history--in which Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, convicted more than a hundred women of witchcraft. In 1645, Alice Hopkins returns to her brother's house in disgrace, husbandless and pregnant. The brother she remembers is now a grown man and he's hunting witches: women who live on the margins of society--often childless widows, or women with deformities or feeble minds who are rejected by their communities. Viewed through the eyes of Alice, this is a woman's story of fear, friendship, love, betrayal, and redemption. What--or who--is Matthew really hunting? And to what dark place will his obsession lead them all?"-- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780399179143
- 0399179143
- OCLC:
- 955007468
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