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Join us on January 10th at 11:15 AM at Harvey’s Tales to discuss, The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent.
Cost: $20 - Includes coffee or tea. Any remaining $ will be donated to MDW Cares, our sister non-profit.
A synopisis of the book:
In 1752, an elderly Sarah Carrier Chapman writes her granddaughter a letter revealing the secret she has kept for sixty years: how she survived the Salem Witch Trials when her mother did not.
Sarah’s story begins more than a year before the trials, when her family settles in a New England community already uneasy with superstition and fear. Her mother, Martha, is strong-willed and sharp-tongued, and the two often clash. As fear and suspicion turn neighbor against neighbor, more than two hundred people are imprisoned, including Martha.
To protect her children, Martha asks Sarah to tell a lie that will condemn her mother but save Sarah’s own life. Facing the gallows, Martha refuses to confess to a crime she didn’t commit. It’s a gripping, heartbreaking story of family, love, and one woman’s fierce refusal to bend, told by the daughter who lived to remember her.
Join us on January 10th at 11:15 AM at Harvey’s Tales to discuss, The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent.
Cost: $20 - Includes coffee or tea. Any remaining $ will be donated to MDW Cares, our sister non-profit.
A synopisis of the book:
In 1752, an elderly Sarah Carrier Chapman writes her granddaughter a letter revealing the secret she has kept for sixty years: how she survived the Salem Witch Trials when her mother did not.
Sarah’s story begins more than a year before the trials, when her family settles in a New England community already uneasy with superstition and fear. Her mother, Martha, is strong-willed and sharp-tongued, and the two often clash. As fear and suspicion turn neighbor against neighbor, more than two hundred people are imprisoned, including Martha.
To protect her children, Martha asks Sarah to tell a lie that will condemn her mother but save Sarah’s own life. Facing the gallows, Martha refuses to confess to a crime she didn’t commit. It’s a gripping, heartbreaking story of family, love, and one woman’s fierce refusal to bend, told by the daughter who lived to remember her.
