by A. K. Blakemore · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781783786442
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«The Manningtree Witches» is the historical novel by A. K. Blakemore, published by Granta Books in paperback (304 pages, in English).
England, 1643: Manningtree, decimated by the civil war, lives under Puritan fervour. Rebecca West, unmarried and without means, sees the arrival of Matthew Hopkins, the witchfinder, whose questions unleash rumours of sabbats and pacts with the devil. Suspicion and betrayal turn the village women into the target of a hunt.
Originally published in 2021, it won the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Betty Trask Award, and was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction, with an interest in witchcraft and the role of women in seventeenth-century England.
