The witchfinder's sister
Subtitle: a novel
By: Beth Underdown
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780399179143
Subjects: Family secrets; Women; Witch hunting; Brothers and sisters; History; Fiction
Description: "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?"--