Her ability to cut through the miasma of deception and paranoia pervading Manningtree and to see things as they truly are grants us a clear view of life as a woman during the witch hunts. Rebecca makes for an insightful protagonist, describing the extraordinary and horrific events unfolding around her with intelligence and dark humor. It is a picture both vivid and ugly, and though the book is set in the 17th century it feels relevant to our present day. Blakemore’s first novel illustrates the anti-witch hysteria sweeping the townspeople as related by Rebecca West, a young woman who lives in Manningtree with her widowed mother.
Set in the small English town of Manningtree, A. The Manningtree Witches (320 pages Catapult) is about all the ugliness that comes with being a woman in a society in which they are oppressed and deemed inferior.
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