The Bewitching Av Jill Dawson

<p><b>''A literary page-turner . . . compulsive and thought-provoking'' Paula Hawkins</b><br><br><b>A dazzling, shocking novel that speaks to our times, drawing on the 16th-century case of the witches of Warboys.<br></b><br>Alice Samuel might be old and sharp-tongued, but she''s no fool. Visiting her new neighbours in her Fenland village, she suspects Squire Throckmorton''s household is not as God-fearing as it seems and finds the children troubled. Yet when one of the daughters accuses her of witchcraft, Alice has no inkling of how quickly matters will escalate.<br><br>The Throckmortons'' maid Martha, uncomfortably aware of strange goings-on in the household herself, is reluctant to believe that Alice is a witch. But as evidence mounts and the entire village is swept up in the frenzied persecution of one of their own, she struggles to find a voice.<br><br>Drawing on the 16th-century case of the witches of Warboys, this is a novel of searing imagination that vividly conveys the way fea