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WITCH-BOTTLES AND WINDLESTRAWS IBD

JOY GELSTHORPE
10 / 2019
9781913036393
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Sinopsis

It&rsquo,s November 1703 and The Great Storm is set to hit Filey Bay on the Yorkshire coast.The people of Reighton have a wedding to celebrate, and sit in church unaware of the impending storm that will affect their lives.Inspired by parish records, Witch-bottles and Windlestraws is the story of the Jordan family and their farming community. Courtships, betrayal, unrequited love and an inexplicable death are woven into a tapestry of 18th Century life and customs and the ever-challenging weather.Characters can turn to the Church for help, or resort to superstition and ancient remedies.Through the heat of August&rsquo,s long harvest days or the hours spent making butter and cheese in the cool of the milkhouse, or through the seemingly never-ending dark winters when the village is cut off by deep snow and ice, life and death are played out in the stark realities of an unforgiving era.

PVP
12,66