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The Manningtree Witches
A. K. BlakemoreWINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD
Fear & destruction take root in a community of women when the Witchfinder General comes to town, in this dark & thrilling debut.
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 & the young woman tasked with saving them all from themselves.
England, 1643. Parliament is battling the King; the war between the Roundheads & the Cavaliers rages. Puritanical fervour has gripped the nation, & the hot terror of damnation burns black in every shadow.
In Manningtree, depleted of men since the wars began, the women are left to their own devices. At the margins of this diminished community are those who are barely tolerated by the affluent villagers – the old, the poor, the unmarried, the sharp-tongued. Rebecca West, daughter of the formidable Beldam West, fatherless & husbandless, chafes against the drudgery of her days, livened only by her infatuation with the clerk John Edes. But then newcomer Matthew Hopkins takes over the Thorn Inn & begins to ask questions about the women of the margins. When a child falls ill with a fever & starts to rave about covens & pacts, the questions take on a bladed edge.
The Manningtree Witches plunges its readers into the fever & menace of the English witch trials, where suspicion, mistrust & betrayal ran amok as the power of men went unchecked & the integrity of women went undefended. It is a visceral, thrilling book that announces a bold new talent.
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A.K. Blakemore is the author of two collections of poetry: Humbert Summer & Fondue. She has also translated the work of Sichuanese poet Yu Yoyo. Her poetry & prose writing have been widely published & anthologized, appearing in the London Review of Books, Poetry, The Poetry Review, & The White Review, etc…
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