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The witchfinder's sister a novel

"A debut literary historical thriller based on the witch hunts in 1640's England--the most intense in English history--in which Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, convicted more than a hundred women of witchcraft. In 1645, Alice Hopkins returns to her brother's house in disgrace, husbandless...

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Main Author: Underdown, Beth (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Ballantine Books, [2017]
Edition:First U.S. edition.
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Hopkins, Matthew, > -1647 > Fiction.
Witch hunting > England > History > 17th century > Fiction.
Women > England > History > 17th century > Fiction.
Historical fiction > England.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Biographical fiction > England.
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Summary:"A debut literary historical thriller based on the witch hunts in 1640's England--the most intense in English history--in which Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, convicted more than a hundred women of witchcraft. In 1645, Alice Hopkins returns to her brother's house in disgrace, husbandless and pregnant. The brother she remembers is now a grown man and he's hunting witches: women who live on the margins of society--often childless widows, or women with deformities or feeble minds who are rejected by their communities. Viewed through the eyes of Alice, this is a woman's story of fear, friendship, love, betrayal, and redemption. What--or who--is Matthew really hunting? And to what dark place will his obsession lead them all?"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:312 pages : map ; 25 cm.
ISBN:9780399179143
0399179143
Author Notes:Beth Underdown studied English literature at the University of York and worked as an intern at the arts and culture magazine Aesthetica . After becoming an editor at Phaidon Press, Underdown graduated with distinction from the University of Manchester's Creative Writing MA program. She came across the story of Matthew Hopkins while reading a book about seventeenth-century midwifery. Underdown now lectures at the University of Manchester and lives in the Peak District, not too far from where she was born; the sense of history in that landscape is an important catalyst for her writing. This is her first novel.

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