by A.K. Blakemore · Fazi Editore · tapa blanda · ISBN 9791259671363
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«Le streghe di Manningtree» is the historical novel by A.K. Blakemore, published by Fazi Editore in paperback (336 pages, in Italian).
In 1643, in the midst of the English Civil War and with the men absent, young Rebecca West struggles to survive in Manningtree (Essex). The arrival of Matthew Hopkins, who interrogates the poorest and loneliest women, and a sick child who deliriously speaks of sabbaths turn rumor into a witch hunt: the community is torn between denunciation and fanaticism.
Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Betty Trask Award, published in English as «The Manningtree Witches» (2021); Italian edition with translation by Velia Februari.
For readers of historical fiction and novels about witch hunts and female oppression in seventeenth-century England.
