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SUMMARY:Kathleen Kent / The Heretic's Daughter - Kathleen Kent
DTSTART:20090129T180000Z
DTEND:20090129T200000Z
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CONTACT:Heffers Bookshop
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 29th January at 6.00PM. \n\nHeffers Fiction Reading G
 roup invites you to meet novelist Kathleen Kent who will be discussing and
  signing copies of her debut novel The Heretic’s Daughter.\n\nMartha Car
 rier was hanged on August 19th 1692 in Salem\, Massachusetts\, unyielding 
 in her refusal to admit to being a witch\, going to her death rather than 
 joining the ranks of men and women who confessed and were thereby spared e
 xecution. Like her mother\, young Sarah Carrier is bright and wilful\, ope
 nly challenging the small\, brutal world in which they live. In this start
 ling novel\, she narrates the story of her early life in Andover\, near Sa
 lem. Her father is a farmer\, English in origin\, quietly stoical but with
  a secret history. Her mother is a herbalist\, tough but loving\, and abov
 e all a good mother. Often at odds with each other\, Sarah and her mother 
 have a close but also cold relationship\, yet it is clear that Martha unde
 rstands her daughter like no other. When Martha is accused of witchcraft\,
  and the whisperings in the community escalate\, she makes her daughter pr
 omise not to stand up for her if the case is taken to court. As Sarah and 
 her brothers are hauled into the prison themselves\, the vicious cruelty o
 f the trials is apparent\, as the Carrier family\, along with other innoce
 nts\, are starved and deprived of any decency\, battling their way through
  the hysteria with the sheer willpower their mother has taught them.\n\n\n
 No ticket required - please inform Richard Reynolds at literature@heffers.
 co.uk / 01223 568532 if you’d like to attend or to reserve a signed copy
 .
LOCATION:Heffers Bookshop\, 20 Trinity Street
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