Join us for our DiscoveReads online author event with Jill Dawson!
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Jill Dawson lives in the Fens near Ely. She is the award-winning author of twelve novels, including The Crime Writer, about author Patricia Highsmith’s time living in Suffolk, which won the East Anglian book of the year and The Language of Birds, about the nanny murdered at the home of Lord Lucan. Her latest is The Bewitching, the true story set in the 16th century, of the witches of Warboys. She runs Gold Dust, which helps new writers to publish.
DiscoveReads book: The Bewitching by Jill Dawson
Alice Samuel might be old and sharp-tongued, but she's no fool. Visiting her new neighbours in her Fenland village, she finds Squire Throckmorton's family troubled and, she suspects, not as God-fearing as they seem. Yet when one of the daughters accuses her of witchcraft, Alice has no idea of the danger she is in or how quickly matters will escalate.
The Throckmortons' maid Martha, uneasy herself about strange goings-on in the household, is reluctant to believe that Alice is a witch. But as the entire village gets swept up in the frenzied persecution of one of their own, she struggles to find a voice...
