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The Witchfinder's Sister
by Beth Underdown
The Witch Finders Sister by Beth Underdown, audiobook narrated by Lucy Brownhill & Roy McMillon published by Penguin Books Ltd. Listened to using to using Listening Books a charity providing audiobooks for people who finding reading physical books more difficult via Libby. 4 stars.
It is 1645 Alice Hopkins husband has just died so Alice is returning home to Manningtree in Essex to where her brother Matthew lives.
There are few people that don’t associate Manningtree and the name Hopkins with the infamous witch trials that happened in the area. Over 100 women found guilty of witchcraft and then killed.
Not much is known of Matthew’s early life, so this is a fictional story told from the point of view of an older sister. Alice finds herself being drawn into Matthew's world and fears for the women she knows that they might end up in the rumoured great book that Matthew has of all the women’s names who are suspected of being witches.
Overall, an interesting story some of the things really did happen in today’s world it is difficult to imagine how this could happen, especially things like ‘swimming’ a person to see if they sink or float. If they sink, they are innocent and float they are a witch, I really can’t work out if I would have preferred to drown or live and face certain death. This is a very bleak period of history that happened not just here in Great Britain, but all over Europe and then to the New World of America. I am still hoping that those responsible are in a very special place where they too got to be tortured.
It is 1645 Alice Hopkins husband has just died so Alice is returning home to Manningtree in Essex to where her brother Matthew lives.
There are few people that don’t associate Manningtree and the name Hopkins with the infamous witch trials that happened in the area. Over 100 women found guilty of witchcraft and then killed.
Not much is known of Matthew’s early life, so this is a fictional story told from the point of view of an older sister. Alice finds herself being drawn into Matthew's world and fears for the women she knows that they might end up in the rumoured great book that Matthew has of all the women’s names who are suspected of being witches.
Overall, an interesting story some of the things really did happen in today’s world it is difficult to imagine how this could happen, especially things like ‘swimming’ a person to see if they sink or float. If they sink, they are innocent and float they are a witch, I really can’t work out if I would have preferred to drown or live and face certain death. This is a very bleak period of history that happened not just here in Great Britain, but all over Europe and then to the New World of America. I am still hoping that those responsible are in a very special place where they too got to be tortured.