Cunning Women

Author(s): Elizabeth Lee

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A bewitching debut from a magnetic new voice in historical fiction. CUNNING WOMEN is sure to be loved by fans of The Essex Serpent and The Mercies.


They only want a kindness, but beware, for if you have no coin, they will curse you black and blue.


1620s, Lancashire. Away from the village lies a small hamlet, abandoned since the Plague, where only one family dwell amongst its ruins. Young Sarah Haworth, her mother, brother and little sister Annie are a family of outcasts by day and the recipients of visitors by night. They are cunning folk, the villagers will always need them, quick with a healing balm or more, should your needs require. They can keep secrets too, because no one would believe them anyway.


When Sarah spies a young man taming a wild horse, she risks being caught to watch him calm the animal. And when Daniel sees Sarah he does not just see a strange, dirty thing, he sees her for who she really is, a strong creature about to come into her own. But can something as fragile as love blossom between these two in such a place as this?


And when a new magistrate arrives to rid out those behind the strange ends that keep befalling the villagers, he has his eye on one family alone. And a torch in his hand.


Cunning Women is the powerful reckoning of a young woman with her wildness, a heartbreaking tale of young love and a shattering story of the intolerance that reigned during the long shadow of the Pendle Witch Trials when those who did not conform found persecution at every door.

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General Fields

  • : 9781786091178
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Windmill Books
  • : 0.424
  • : September 2020
  • : 2.7 Centimeters X 15.4 Centimeters X 21.4 Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Elizabeth Lee
  • : Paperback
  • : 2105
  • : 823.92
  • : 332