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Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the small English town of Manningtree in 1643, when a newcomer who identifies himself as the Witchfinder General arrives, Rebecca West must quell the rumors of covens, pacts, and bodily wants to save the town's women.
England, 1643. In Manningtree, a town depleted of men since the wars began, Rebecca West is fatherless and husbandless. The drudgery of her days is livened only occasionally by her infatuation with the handsome young clerk John Edes....
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
300 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
1798, France. Nuns move along the dark corridors of a Versailles hospital where the young Sister Perpetué has been tasked with sitting with the patient who must always be watched. The man, gaunt, with his sallow skin and distended belly, is dying: they say he ate a golden fork, and that it's killing him from the inside. But that's not all--he is rumored to have done monstrous things in his attempts to sate an insatiable appetite... an appetite they...