# The Bewitching

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- Book: [The Bewitching](https://www.bookquiver.com/jill-dawson/the-bewitching) ([The Bewitching.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jill-dawson/the-bewitching.md))
- Authors: [Jill Dawson](https://www.bookquiver.com/jill-dawson), [Jilly Bond](https://www.bookquiver.com/jilly-bond), [Daphne Kouma](https://www.bookquiver.com/daphne-kouma)
- Publisher: sceptre
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-7365-471-6
- Published: 2022-07-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

A dazzling, shocking novel that speaks to our times, drawing on the 16th-century case of the witches of Warboys. Alice Samuel might be old and sharp-tongued, but she's no fool. Visiting her new neighbours in her Fenland village, she suspects Squire Throckmorton's household is not as God-fearing as it seems and finds the children troubled. What she cannot foresee is that all five daughters will succumb in turn to a terrifying affliction and accuse her of witchcraft - who else to blame than an ugly, black-capped woman with mysterious healing skills? The Throckmortons' maid Martha, uncomfortably aware of strange goings-on in the household herself, is reluctant to believe that Alice is a witch. Yet visiting scholars attracted by the news are convinced, evidence mounts and soon the entire village is swept up in the frenzied persecution of one of their own community. Exploring a neglected episode in English history to powerful effect, The Bewitching chillingly conveys the brutal tribalism that can erupt in a closed society and how victims can be made to believe in their own wickedness. (P)2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited