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The Manningtree Witches

Written by: A. K. Blakemore
Narrated by: Sofia Zervudachi
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England, 1643. Puritanical fervor has gripped the nation. And in Manningtree, a town depleted of men since the wars began, the hot terror of damnation burns in the hearts of women left to their own devices.

Rebecca West, fatherless and husbandless, chafes against the drudgery of her days, livened only occasionally by her infatuation with handsome young clerk John Edes. But then a newcomer, who identifies himself as the Witchfinder General, arrives. A mysterious, pious figure dressed from head to toe in black, Matthew Hopkins takes over the Thorn Inn and begins to ask questions about what the women on the margins of this diminished community are up to. Dangerous rumors of covens, pacts, and bodily wants have begun to hang over women like Rebecca - and the future is as frightening as it is thrilling.

Brimming with contemporary energy and resonance, The Manningtree Witches plunges its listeners into the fever and menace of the English witch trials, where suspicion, mistrust, and betrayal run amok as a nation's arrogant male institutions start to realize that the very people they've suppressed for so long may be about to rise up and claim their freedom.
©2021 A. K. Blakemore (P)2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC
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Wonderful book, excellent reader

You can tell the author is a poet. So many times I was left breathless at a perfect word, adjective or turn of phrase. Beautifully written. And I can’t imagine this wonderful book being paired with a better reader, it was one of those performances where the reader and the character become so intertwined that they are one and the same. I loved this book so much that I had to listen to it twice, despite the harsh subject matter, just to experience again the beauty of the writing. A gift.

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