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Item Category 1: Adult Fiction
Record 223 of 15846

Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2022.
Collation:
xxiv, 308 pages : maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: UK: Allen Lane, 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer fits, and are plagued by strange visions and dreams. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics, and the community becomes tangled in a web of spite, distrust and denunciation. The finger of suspicion falls on a young couple struggling to make a home and feed their children: Hugh Parsons the prickly brickmaker and his troubled wife, Mary. It will be their downfall. 'The Ruin of All Witches' tells the dark, real-life folktale of witch-hunting in a remote Massachusetts plantation. These were the turbulent beginnings of colonial America, when English settlers' dreams of love and liberty, of founding a 'city on a hill', gave way to paranoia and terror, enmity and rage.
ISBN:
9780141991481 (pbk)
Dewey Class:
133.4'3'0974426
133.430974426
133.430974
Language:
English
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BRN:
3367289
Bookmark Link:
https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/KIDS/BIBENQ?BRN=3367289

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