Издания и произведения

Наши дни причудливо переплетаются с концом XVII века. Видения на грани безумия или это дар ясновидения? Где происходят все эти события - в сознании историка Конни Гудвин, все глубже погружающейся в атмосферу салемских процессов, или в реальности? Конни пытается прояснить историю "малоизвестной ведьмы Салема" Деливеренс Дейн и поначалу уверенна, что ее интерес к судьбе молодой знахарки, казненной на виселице в 1692 году, носит чисто научный характер. Но постепенно она понимает: между ней и Деливеренс установилась некая связь, которая может навеки изменить её жизнь - или попросту стоить ей жизни.

"Have you not considered the distinct possibility that the accused were simply guilty of witchcraft?" Connie Goodwin thinks her academic advisor is teasing her; she has mastered the scholarship surrounding the Salem witch trials of 1692 and knows the question he poses is preposterous. She never suspects that answering it will alter everything she knows about the past, her family, and the professor himself. Interweaving two narratives, one set in 1991 and one set three centuries earlier, Katherine Howe's debut novel is a marvel of invention and historical reconstruction. The author employs her training as a historian to vividly depict…

While clearing out her grandmother's cottage for sale, Connie Goodwin finds a hidden parchment inscribed with the name Deliverance Dane. And so begins the hunt to uncover the woman behind the name, a hunt that takes her back to Salem in 1692 . . . and the infamous witchcraft trials. But nothing is entirely as it seems and when Connie unearths the existence of Deliverance's spell book, the Physick Book, the situation takes on a menacing edge as interested parties reveal their desperation to find this precious artefact at any cost. What secrets does the Physick Book contain? What magic is scrawled across its parchment pages? Connie must…

While clearing out her grandmother's cottage for sale, Connie Goodwin finds a parchment inscribed with the name Deliverance Dane. And so begins the hunt to uncover the woman behind the name, a hunt that takes her back to Salem in 1692...and the infamous witchcraft trials. But nothing is entirely as it seems and when Connie unearths the existence of Deliverance's spell book, the Physick Book, the situation takes on a menacing edge as interested parties reveal their desperation to find this precious artefact at any cost. What secrets does the Physick Book contain? What magic is scrawled across its parchment pages? Connie must race to answer…