Deliverance from evil
By: Frances Hill
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781590204702
Subjects: Trials (Witchcraft); Witchcraft; Fiction; Witches; History
Description: Salem, Massachusetts, Winter 1692: In the parsonage of Reverend Samuel Parris, two young girls are seated by the fire and play at fortune telling as snow falls softly outside. What starts as a game sends one of the girls into a hysterical trance, and a small town begins its descent into madness. Accusations of witchcraft would destroy lives and old scores would be settled. Over 150 people would be arrested and imprisoned, with even more accused of consorting with the devil. In this book, the author brings her historical and political understanding together with her skills as a novelist to produce a picture of the Salem witch trials both realistic and emotional.
Notes: "A novel of the Salem witch trials"--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 320).