Hour of the Witch: A Novel

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Description: Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in the New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary's hand, she resolves that she must divorce him to save her life. But in a world where every neighbor is watching for signs of the devil, a woman like Mary--a woman who harbors secret desires and finds it difficult to tolerate the brazen hypocrisy of so many men in the ... (more)

Manufacturer: Doubleday
Release date: 4 May 2021
ISBN-10 : 0385542437 | ISBN-13: 9780385542432

Tags: Historical Fiction (1), 1660s (1), Domestic Abuse (1), Witch Hunts (1)

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