The Witching Tide: The powerful and gripping debut novel for readers of Margaret Atwood and Hilary Mantel

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Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer and servant, has lived for more than four decades in her beloved coastal village of Cleftwater. The novel poses big questions: In extreme circumstances would you take a stand against a perceived injustice if it meant risking losing your own life? The other thing from perhaps a more feminist perspective is that the witch has always represented an affront to patriarchy. One of Kingsolver’s major themes, hit a little too insistently, is the contempt felt by participants in the modern capitalist economy for those rooted in older ways of life. Meyer’s prose was absolutely poetic and beautiful, she takes you right back to the time and you truly feel like you are immersed.

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These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. She tried to stand but all her strength had drained away and she had to lean against the kitchen table. MM: There’s a museum in Cornwall, the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic: they have lots in their collection.Among the few cherished keepsakes she has from her mother is a small wax doll—a poppet—which acts as a talisman and comfort and, ultimately, source of mystical power for the beleaguered Martha.

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The addition of the East Anglian witch hunt gives a haunting look at the murders that occurred puts a tarnish on the time and reflects the fault in human nature for what it was. A spellbinding historical debut which tells the story of a silent midwife hiding a secret and a witch-hunt that tears a community apart.

It also felt descriptively true to the time period of 1600s, the setting was cultivated with care and attention on the authors part.

The Witching Tide by Margaret Meyer: A harrowing and

For those that are curious about a lesser-known period of witch hunts in history this may be worth the read. A low keening was starting up, soft pleas and cries, the noise something she had heard before, recent, a stamp on her mind. She is caught between suspicion and betrayal; between shielding herself or condemning the women of the village.Wanted to give it a good chance because it's a debut and I received it as an ARC, and I think it is a very vivid, honest, valuable book. Martha, our one POV character, is mute, which forced her—and by extension, us readers—to bear silent witness to the atrocities around her. Based off the witch hunt trials that happened around 1645-7, this is a lovely literary piece of historical fiction that captures the agony and unfairness of being a woman during this time. As with all great historical fiction, The Witching Tide gives voice to the unspoken and brings light to dark places, drawing to the surface those stories that need to be told and need us to listen. She turned it upside down and repeated the process, holding the doll’s head to the heat until the wax was doughy.