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Hour of the witch : a novel

Title

Hour of the witch : a novel / Chris Bohjalian.

Author

Bohjalian, Chris, 1962-

Publication

[New York] : Random House Audio, 2021.

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1 online resource (1 audio file (14 hr., 12 min., 27 sec.))

Summary

"Absolutely riveting historical fiction that reads like the most page-turning of thrillers."--Lisa Scottoline, bestselling author of Eternal A Read It Forward Most Anticipated Book * A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book * A CrimeReads Most Anticipated Book * A Real Simple Best New Book * A GoodReads Most Anticipated Book * An AARP Most Anticipated Book A young Puritan woman--faithful, resourceful, but afraid of the demons that dog her soul--plots her escape from a violent marriage in this riveting and propulsive novel of historical suspense from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant. 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 colony--soon becomes herself the object of suspicion and rumor. When tainted objects are discovered buried in Mary's garden, when a boy she has treated with herbs and simples dies, and when their servant girl runs screaming in fright from her home, Mary must fight to not only escape her marriage, but also the gallows. A twisting, tightly plotted novel of historical suspense from one of our greatest storytellers, Hour of the Witch is a timely and terrifying story of socially sanctioned brutality and the original American witch hunt

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Genre/Form

Thrillers (Fiction)
Suspense fiction.
Audiobooks.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
History.

ISBN

9780593348833

OCLC

1249702451
1249702451

Author

Bohjalian, Chris, 1962- author.

Title

Hour of the witch : a novel / Chris Bohjalian.

Publisher

[New York] : Random House Audio, 2021.

Edition

Unabridged.

Playing Time

141227

Type of Content

spoken word

Type of Medium

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Digital File Characteristics

audio file

Performer

Read by Julia Whelan, Arthur Morey, Mark Deakins, Kirby Heyborne, Saskia Maarleveld, Rebecca Lowman, Cassandra Campbell, Mark Bramhall, Danny Campbell, Kaleo Griffith and Grace Experience.

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