The release date for the English version of 'The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane' by
Katherine Howe is May 2009. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A captivating tale with exquisite writing that alternates between the present and the Salem witch trials, one of the most intriguing and unsettling episodes in American history.
Connie Goodwin, a graduate student at Harvard, had to do research for her PhD dissertation over the summer. She is unable to decline her mother's request to manage the sale of Connie's grandmother's deserted house close to Salem, however. As Connie delves more into the mystery surrounding the family home, she finds an antiquated key hidden within a Bible from the seventeenth century. A piece of deteriorating paper with the name Deliverance Dane scrawled on it is inside the key. After making this discovery, Connie sets out on a mission to learn more about this lady and to locate a unique relic with extraordinary power: a physical book, the pages of which contain a hidden archive of information.
As the horrific details of Deliverance's tale come together, Connie is plagued by memories of the long-ago witch trials and starts to worry that she is more connected to Salem's troubled history than she ever could have imagined.
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, written with astounding conviction and elegance, deftly switches between a contemporary woman's tale of mystery, intrigue, and revelation and the 1690s witch trials.
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