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'Novels about witch hunts are not rare beasts, but The Bewitching, which is based on the true story of the witches of Warboys, is a particularly fine example. Tension builds, events spiral out of control and it builds to a devastating finale.'- The Times
“This summer's hottest proof.” Louise Doughty, author of Apple Tree Yard
“I read The Bewitching on holiday - it's a brilliant novel - brava! So vividly written, and such a convincing take on what might have happened - also really gripping and FUNNY. I do love a properly literary page turner.” Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train
“Jill Dawson really has the gift of tongues: The Bewitching tells an ancient and terrible tale, of women silenced, monstered and vilified and makes it profoundly involving, vivid and new. Dawson has a talent for evoking a time and place and people that is so nuanced and compelling it feels uncanny and she brings all a poet’s skill for the seductive texture of life to this breathlessly exciting narrative.” Christobel Kent author of The Loving Husband
“This is a vivid recollection of 16th Century life in the Fens and a powerfully moving tale about cruelty, persecution and power. As for witchcraft, not so much, for the evil at the heart of this brilliant novel has a more earthly source.” Bookseller, Book of the Month
“Dawson has a talent for evoking a time and place and people that is so nuanced and compelling it feels uncanny, and she brings all a poet’s skill for the seductive texture of life to a breathlessly exciting narrative.” Christobel Kent, author of The Loving Husband, The Crooked House, What She Did, Deep Water
“Jill Dawson is our most consummate historical novelist. She crafts magic out of darkness and light. Nothing evokes the past as vividly as her deft prose. And dark as The Bewitching is, with its eerie echoes of our own times, we know we are safe in her superb, story-telling hands.” Philip Hoare, author of Albert & the Whale
“Jill Dawson is a magnificent writer. I would read her shopping lists.” Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love
It has also been picked as one of the most anticipated summer reads for 2022