Daughters of the Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt is a must read for anyone who reads anything to do with Witch Trials. This was such an enlightening book from an author that has a real good eye for the details that will make you ever so happy that you are in a more forgiving time period.This book actually takes place before the Salem witch trials here in the United States but with no less hysteria. To be caught up in such a horrible situtation and persecuted for just trying to help others and only do good it's no wonder that people of the time were so afraid of anything and everything.
This is a story that spans three prominent generations and still throughout the lifestyle of the people hardly changes. I guess being in the country at that time would keep things consistant and without change due to the fact that people were very poor.
I found this book to be more than I could have possibly expected and it played on every emotion with such intensity that I could not put the book down until my eyelids closed from exhaustion. This is a heavy read and not one for the week of heart. I truly feel blessed that the times have become so much more free and liberated so as not to have to live in such abject poverty that was common for this heartwrenching time.
If you are going to read just one book this year that is so close to historical fact that it just borders the lines of fiction/nonfiction, then I highly recommend this particular one. The author has gone well above and beyond to give us an encounting story of the truths behind greed, poverty, fear, hate, love, kindness and ever so much more that you will be in awe of the strength of the characters in this book.
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (April 7, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0547069677
ISBN-13: 978-0547069678
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