{"product_id":"the-manningtree-witches-by-a-k-blakemore","title":"The Manningtree Witches By A.K. Blakemore","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWolf Hall \u003c\/i\u003emeets \u003ci\u003eThe Favourite \u003c\/i\u003ein this beguiling debut novel that brilliantly brings to life the residents of a small English town in the grip of the seventeenth-century witch trials and the young woman tasked with saving them all from themselves.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEngland, 1643. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePuritanical fervor has gripped the nation. And in Manningtree, a town depleted of men since the wars began, the hot terror of damnation burns in the hearts of women left to their own devices.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRebecca West, fatherless and husbandless, chafes against the drudgery of her days, livened only occasionally by her infatuation with the handsome young clerk John Edes. But then a newcomer, Matthew Hopkins, arrives. A mysterious, pious figure dressed from head to toe in black, he takes over the Thorn Inn and begins to ask questions about what the women on the margins of this diminished community are up to. Dangerous rumors of covens, pacts, and bodily wants have begun to hang over women like Rebecca--and the future is as frightening as it is thrilling.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBrimming with contemporary energy and resonance, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Manningtree Witches\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e plunges its readers into the fever and menace of the English witch trials, where suspicion, mistrust, and betrayal run amok as a nation's arrogant male institutions start to realize that the very people they've suppressed for so long may be about to rise up and claim their freedom.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58181931958656,"sku":null,"price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0986\/4550\/8480\/files\/image_e94da605-002a-4130-8f75-27a943ee3b71.jpg?v=1780134235","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookeryuk.co.uk\/products\/the-manningtree-witches-by-a-k-blakemore","provider":"The Bookery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}