TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meyer, Margaret,
TI  - The witching tide
SN  - 9781869715250
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Auckland, NZ
PB  - Moa Press
KW  - Witches
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Midwives
KW  - East Anglia (England)
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - NZ historical fiction
N2  - "East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer and servant, has lived for more than four decades in her beloved coastal village of Cleftwater. Everyone knows Martha, but no one has ever heard her speak.One morning, the peaceful atmosphere is violently shattered and Martha becomes a silent witness to a witch hunt. As a trusted member of the community, she is enlisted to search the bodies of the accused women. But whilst Martha wants to help her friends, she also harbours a dark secret. In desperation, she revives a witching doll that she inherited from her mother, in the hope that it will bring protection. But the doll's true powers are unknowable, the tide is turning, and time is running out . . ."--Publisher's website
ER  -