The witching tide : a novel / Margaret Meyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyer, Margaret, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mute persons--Fiction.

Mute persons.

Healers--Fiction.

Healers.

Midwives--Fiction.

Midwives.

Witch hunting--Fiction.

Witch hunting.

East Anglia (England)--Fiction.

East Anglia (England).

Great Britain--History--Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660--Fiction.

Great Britain.

England--East Anglia.

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Fiction.

History.

Occult fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

327 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Scribner, 2023.

Summary:

"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 Martha finds herself a silent witness to the hunt. Powerless to protest, Martha is enlisted to search the accused women for "devil's marks." She is caught between suspicion and betrayal; between shielding herself or condemning the women of the village. In desperation, she revives a wax witching doll that belonged to her mother, in the hope that it will bring protection. But the doll's true powers are unknowable, Martha harbors a terrible secret, and the gallows are looming..."-- Publisher's description.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 325).

ISBN:

9781668011362

1668011360

OCLC:

1395011333