![]() ![]() Rebecca West, daughter of the formidable Beldam West, fatherless and husbandless, chafes against the drudgery of her days, livened only by her infatuation with the clerk John Edes. 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. In Manningtree, depleted of men since the wars began, the women are left to their own devices. Puritanical fervour has gripped the nation, and the hot terror of damnation burns black in every shadow. Parliament is battling the King the war between the Roundheads and the Cavaliers rages. WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE Fear and destruction take root in a community of women when the Witchfinder General comes to town, in this dark and thrilling debut. ![]()
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