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Title: Cunning Women
Author: LEE ELIZABETH
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 04/05/2021
Imprint: WINDMILL BOOKS
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active
A bewitching debut from a magnetic new voice in historical fiction. CUNNING WOMEN is
sure to be loved by fans of The Essex Serpent and The Mercies.They only want a
kindness, but beware, for if you have no coin, they will curse you black and blue.1620s,
Lancashire. Away from the village lies a small hamlet, abandoned since the Plague, where
only one family dwell amongst its ruins. Young Sarah Haworth, her mother, brother and
little sister Annie are a family of outcasts by day and the recipients of visitors by night. They
are cunning folk, the villagers will always need them, quick with a healing balm or more,
should your needs require. They can keep secrets too, because no one would believe them
anyway.When Sarah spies a young man taming a wild horse, she risks being caught to
watch him calm the animal. And when Daniel sees Sarah he does not just see a strange,
dirty thing, he sees her for who she really is, a strong creature about to come into her own.
But can something as fragile as love blossom between these two in such a place as this?
And when a new magistrate arrives to rid out those behind the strange ends that keep
befalling the villagers, he has his eye on one family alone. And a torch in his hand.Cunning
Women is the powerful reckoning of a young woman with her wildness, a heartbreaking
tale of young love and a shattering story of the intolerance that reigned during the long
shadow of the Pendle Witch Trials when those who did not conform found persecution at
every door.
ISBN: 9781786091178
Pages: 332