Superb * The Times *<br />This truly superb novel will have your heart racing, your hands sweating and your brain whirring. You must read it. * Guardian *<br />Powerful and intriguing, The Merrybegot bewitches and beguiles from first to last. * Celia Rees *<br />Hearn has the skill of a conjuror and her novel casts a spell * Sunday Times *<br />There's plenty more fire and brimstone to be found in Julie Hearn's The Merrybegot, which layers fact and fiction, the earthbound and the supernatural to atmospheric effect. * Observer *<br />The Merrybegot combines magic realism and historical fact in a formula that Julie Hearn has made her own * Sunday Telegraph *