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Mar 2023, 336 pages
Paperback:
Feb 2024, 368 pages
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Jo-Anne Blanco
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Emilia Hart's debut novel Weyward takes the reader on an enthralling journey back and forth across time to follow the stories of three extraordinary women. In 1619, Altha has been arrested and thrown into a dungeon to await trial for witchcraft. Four hundred years later, in 2019, Kate is trapped in an abusive relationship, from which she plans to escape. Centuries after Altha and decades before Kate, sixteen-year-old Violet lives a secluded life in a manor house in the north of England in 1942, with her strict father and younger brother Graham. Violet's special affinity with insects, birds and other animals, and her deeply felt connection to nature, lead the servants to see her as "uncanny" and "strange," and we gradually learn that all three women share these same gifts.
As the narrative unfolds, the connections between the three protagonists deepen, each of their stories a ...
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