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Meyer, Margaret,

The witching tide / Margaret Meyer. - Auckland, NZ : Moa Press, 2023. - 319 pages ; 24 cm

"East 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 violently shattered and Martha becomes a silent witness to a witch hunt. As a trusted member of the community, she is enlisted to search the bodies of the accused women. But whilst Martha wants to help her friends, she also harbours a dark secret. In desperation, she revives a witching doll that she inherited from her mother, in the hope that it will bring protection. But the doll's true powers are unknowable, the tide is turning, and time is running out . . ."--Publisher's website.

ISBN: 9781869715250 186971525X

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Witches--Fiction.
Midwives--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
East Anglia (England)--History--17th century--Fiction.

Subjects--Index Terms: NZ historical fiction