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A superb writer' EMMA STONEX'Stylish and raw' ANNE ENRIGHTEast Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer and servant, has lived for more than four decades in her beloved coastal village of Cleftwater. Everyone knows Martha, but no one has ever heard her speak.One morning, the peaceful atmosphere is shattered by a sinister arrival and Martha becomes a silent witness to a witch-hunt. As a trusted member of the community, she is enlisted...

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East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, eine Hebamme, Heilerin und Dienerin, lebt seit mehr als vier Jahrzehnten friedlich in ihrem vertrauten Cleftwater. Jeder im Dorf kennt Martha, aber niemand hat sie jemals sprechen gehört. Martha ist stumm. Eines hellen Morgens wird sie Zeugin einer Hexenjagd, angeordnet von dem entschlossenen Hexenjäger Silas Makepeace, der neu ins Dorf gekommen ist. Die Jagd trifft auch Prissy, die junge Küchenhilfe ...

For readers of Margaret Atwood and Hilary Mantel, an immersive literary debut inspired by historical events—a deadly witch hunt in 17th-century England—that claimed many innocent lives.East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer, and servant, has lived peacefully for more than four decades in her beloved coastal village of Cleftwater. Rendered voiceless as a child, Martha has not spoken a word in years. One autumn morning, a sinist...

A magnificent debut set in East Anglia in 1645, which tells the story of a silent midwife harbouring a secret and a witch-hunt that tears a community apart.

THERE IS POWER IN SILENCEEast Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer and servant, has lived peacefully for more than four decades in her beloved Cleftwater. Everyone in the village knows Martha, but no one has ever heard her speak.One bright morning, Martha becomes a silent witness to a witch hunt, led by sinister new arrival Silas Makepeace. As a trusted member of the community, she is enlisted to search the bodies of the accused ...

This book addresses the vexed status of literary value, focusing on everyday scholarly and pedagogical activities, using Chaucer studies as a case in point. It explores how we may reconcile literary value's inevitability with its uncertainties and complicities, seeking to forge a viable rationale for literary studies generally.

This Element includes time-lapse video made in 1983 on film, followed by recent digital videography from submersibles and remotely operated vehicles of deep-sea crinoids, revealing behaviors in taxa never before seen in life.

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