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Cunning women / Elizabeth Lee.
Van Pelt Library PR6112.E3834 C86 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Elizabeth (Novelist), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lancashire (England)--History--17th century--Fiction.
- Lancashire (England).
- England--Lancashire.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- History.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 368 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Windmill Books, 2021.
- Summary:
- 1620s Lancashire. Away from the village lies a small hamlet, abandoned since the Plague, where only one family dwells amongst its ruins. Young Sarah Haworth, her mother, brother and little sister Annie are a family of outcasts by day and the recipients of visitors by night. They are cunning folk: the villagers will always need them, quick with a healing balm or more, should the need arise. They can keep secrets too, because no one would believe them anyway. When Sarah spies a young man taming a wild horse, she risks being caught to watch him calm the animal. And when Daniel sees Sarah he does not just see a strange, dirty thing, he sees her for who she really is: a strong creature about to come into her own. But can something as fragile as love blossom between these two in such a place as this? When a new magistrate arrives to investigate the strange ends that keep befalling the villagers, he has his eye on one family alone. And a torch in his hand.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1786091178
- 9781786091178
- 178609116X
- 9781786091161
- OCLC:
- 1178635253
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