While clearing out her grandmother''s cottage for sale, Connie Goodwin finds a hidden parchment inscribed with the name Deliverance Dane. And so begins the hunt to uncover the woman behind the name, a hunt that takes her back to Salem in 1692 . . . and the infamous witchcraft trials.But nothing is entirely as it seems and when Connie unearths the existence of Deliverance''s spell book, the Physick Book, the situation takes on a menacing edge as interested parties reveal their desperation to find this precious artefact at any cost.What secrets does the Physick Book contain? What magic is scrawled across its parchment pages? Connie must race to answer these questions - and reveal the truth about Salem''s women - before an ancient family curse once more fulfils its dark and devastating prophecy . . .Previously published in the UK as The Lost Book of Salem.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Penguin
ISBN: 9780141047553
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 15/04/2010
Año de edición: 2010
Plaza de edición: London
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Katherine Howe
Katherine Howe es estudiante de Historia de los Estados Unidos yNueva Inglaterra, ha trabajado en Harvard y está escribiendo su trabajo de doctorado. Es descendiente de dos de las brujas acusadas de Salem: Elizabeth Howe, que fue ahorcada, y Elizabeth Proctor, que sobrevivió. Este es su primer libro.