Witch Child

So begins the journal kept by a 14-year-old girl in the 1650s, which lay hidden for centuries in a quilt until finally falling loose when the quilt is cleaned. Mary sees her grandmother, the woman who brought her up, executed as a witch and she knows that the healing skills and abilities that saw her grandmother condemned may well be her own undoing. So she runs away and joins a group of pilgrims travelling to the New World. But when Mary eventually arrives in Massachusetts, she once again becomes the target of superstition. Can she avoid her grandmother’s fate? And if she runs again, where can she go? This moving book deals with the exciting life of one teenage girl in the 17th century, vividly describing a period of time in which a woman was never too young to be a threat and never too old to be someone’s property.