Description
‘An evocative piece of storytelling that weaves sublimely like its witch knots’ – Susan Stokes-Chapman
The stage is set and the witch-hunt is about to start out…
‘I’m no witch. I’ve not sold my soul to the devil for powers. What I’m has never openly been whispered of, yet it’s enough that individuals would hang for it.’
England, 1645.
After his half-brother dies, aspiring playwright Nicholas Pearce is apprenticed to Pass judgement on William Percival, an infamous former witch-hunter who is under pressure to resume his old profession.
In a country torn apart by civil war, with escalating tensions between Catholics and Protestants, Royalists and Roundheads, and rumours of witchcraft, Nicholas hides a secret: the dead sing. He hears their secrets, but will he find the courage to talk as much as save innocent lives, despite the fact that it means putting himself in great danger?
A spellbinding debut novel easiest for fans of Stacey Halls, Laura Purcell and Bridget Collins.
