{"product_id":"the-witching-tide-9781668011362b","title":"The Witching Tide","description":"\u003cb\u003e“\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eStylish and raw\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e…\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eseizes the reader\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e’\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003es sympathy and does not let go\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.” —\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Enright, Booker Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e–\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ewinning author of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gathering\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Margaret Atwood and Hilary Mantel, an immersive literary debut inspired by historical events—a deadly witch hunt in 17th-century England—that claimed many innocent lives.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEast Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer, and servant, has lived peacefully for more than four decades in her beloved seaside village of Cleftwater. Having lost her voice as a child, Martha has not spoken a word in years.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOne autumn morning, a sinister newcomer appears in town. The witchfinder, Silas Makepeace, has been blazing a trail of destruction along the coast, and now has Cleftwater in his sights. His arrival strikes fear into the heart of the community. Within a day, local women are being captured and detained, and Martha finds herself a silent witness to the hunt.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePowerless to protest, Martha is enlisted to search the accused women for “devil’s marks.” She is caught between suspicion and betrayal; between shielding herself or condemning the women of the village. In desperation, she revives a wax witching doll that belonged to her mother, in the hope that it will bring protection. But the doll’s true powers are unknowable, Martha harbors a terrible secret, and the gallows are looming…\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSet over the course of just a few weeks that will forever change history, \u003ci\u003eThe Witching Tide\u003c\/i\u003e delivers powerful and psychologically astute insights about the exigencies of friendship and the nature of loyalty, and heralds the arrival of a striking new voice in fiction.","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42872851497040,"sku":"9781668011362B","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781668011362-l.jpg?v=1785877715","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/the-witching-tide-9781668011362b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}