The Merrybegot /
Julie Hearn.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019
- 313 pages ; same colour illustrations 20 cm
Originally published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
In 1645 in England, the daughters of the town minister successfully accuse a local healer and her granddaughter of witchcraft to conceal an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, but years later during the 1692 Salem trials their lie has unexpected repercussions. Includes reading notes.
Great Britain--History--Civil War, 1642-1649--Fiction. Somerset (England)--History--Civil War, 1642-1649--Fiction. Salem (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Fiction.