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 *

In a remote west-country village, all is not as it seems. The minister's daughters have taken to their bed, howling and spitting pins. Rumours of bad magic and witchcraft are spreading fast, the piskies are whispering in the orchard and an ill wind is blowing. Nell, the cunning woman's granddaughter, finds the fingers of blame are all pointing towards her. With Matthew Hopkins, the Witch-Finder General, on his way, Nell is alone, trapped and in mortal danger. Who can she trust? Who will save her? In years to come, Patience Madden, the minister's youngest daughter, has a confession to make. A confession that shows another side to what happened to her sister, Grace, and to Nell, half a century before . . .
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In a remote west-country village rumours of bad magic and witchcraft are spreading. The piskies are whispering in the orchard and an ill wind is blowing. The fingers of blame are pointing to Nell, the cunning woman's granddaughter. Alone, trapped and in fear for her life, who can Nell trust? And who can save her?
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A stunning and evocative novel by this hugely talented writer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780192732354
Publisert
2011
Utgiver
Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press
Vekt
206 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
03, Y
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288

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Julie Hearn has been writing all her life. After training as a journalist, she went to Australia, where she worked on a daily tabloid newspaper. She then lived in Spain for a while before returning to England, where she worked as a features editor and freelance features writer. After her daughter was born she went back to her studies and obtained a BA in English and an MSt in women's studies. She is now a full-time writer.