{"product_id":"the-witching-tide-margaret-meyer-hardcover","title":"The Witching Tide -- Margaret Meyer, Hardcover","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eStylish and raw\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eseizes the reader\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003es sympathy and does not let go\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\" --\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Enright, Booker Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ewinning author of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gathering\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Margaret Atwood and Hilary Mantel, an immersive literary debut inspired by historical events--a deadly witch hunt in 17th-century England--that claimed many innocent lives.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEast Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer, and servant, has lived peacefully for more than four decades in her beloved seaside village of Cleftwater. Having lost her voice as a child, Martha has not spoken a word in years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne autumn morning, a sinister newcomer appears in town. The witchfinder, Silas Makepeace, has been blazing a trail of destruction along the coast, and now has Cleftwater in his sights. His arrival strikes fear into the heart of the community. Within a day, local women are being captured and detained, and Martha finds herself a silent witness to the hunt. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePowerless to protest, Martha is enlisted to search the accused women for \"devil's marks.\" She is caught between suspicion and betrayal; between shielding herself or condemning the women of the village. In desperation, she revives a wax witching doll that belonged to her mother, in the hope that it will bring protection. But the doll's true powers are unknowable, Martha harbors a terrible secret, and the gallows are looming... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet over the course of just a few weeks that will forever change history, \u003ci\u003eThe Witching Tide\u003c\/i\u003e delivers powerful and psychologically astute insights about the exigencies of friendship and the nature of loyalty, and heralds the arrival of a striking new voice in fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret Meyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.43h x 5.51w x 1.18d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781668011362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2023 pg. 6\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/03\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2023 pg. 52\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/08\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Meyer has an MA in fiction from the University of East Anglia, and her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eWords \u0026amp; Women, Landfall, Reflex Fiction, Southern Skies, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTriarchy Press\u003c\/i\u003e. Meyer was born in Canada and grew up in New Zealand where she worked as a journalist and a fiction editor. After moving to the UK she was the Museum of London's Publishing Director before becoming Director of Literature with the British Council. Now a practicing therapist, she has had clinical essays published in academic journals. She lives in Norwich, England. \u003ci\u003eThe Witching Tide\u003c\/i\u003e, her first novel, was inspired by the events of the 1645-7 East Anglian witch hunt and is dedicated to the more than 100 innocent women who lost their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Margaret Meyer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45011140444388,"sku":"9781668011362","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9781668011362.jpg?v=1719532308","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/the-witching-tide-margaret-meyer-hardcover","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}