01825cam a2200337 i 4500 451263238 TxAuBib 20201124120000.0 170410s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017017441 9780399179143 hardcover 0399179143 hardcover TxAuBib rda Underdown, Beth,. The witchfinder's sister : a novel / Beth Underdown. First U.S. edition. New York : Ballantine Books, 2017. 312 pages : map ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A debut literary historical thriller based on the witch hunts in 1640s England--the most intense in English history--in which Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, convicted more than a hundred women of witchcraft. In 1645, Alice Hopkins returns to her brother's house in disgrace, husbandless and pregnant. The brother she remembers is now a grown man and he's hunting witches: women who live on the margins of society--often childless widows, or women with deformities or feeble minds who are rejected by their communities. Viewed through the eyes of Alice, this is a woman's story of fear, friendship, love, betrayal, and redemption. What--or who--is Matthew really hunting? And to what dark place will his obsession lead them all?"-- Provided by publisher. 20201124. Hopkins, Matthew, -1647 Fiction. Witch hunting England History 17th century Fiction. Women England History 17th century Fiction. FICTION / Historical. Historical fiction. Suspense fiction. QS7