The Heretic's Daughter

[justcarol67]

I've recently read a historical novel about my Salem "witch" ancestor, Martha Carrier. Like most historical novels, it contains quite a bit of purely imagined action and dialogue and gets some details wrong, but it does a good job of presenting the trials and the conditions in the women's prison (which also contained children). I'd be interested in the reactions of anyone who reads this book and even though it's not perfect, I recommend it for anyone who wants to know more about the witch trials and the atmosphere in Massachusetts in the 1690s. The author is also a descendant of Martha Carrier, but through her daughter, Sarah, not her son, Thomas,as I am.

Sorry, Potioncat! My distant cousin (ninth cousin once removed?) beat me to the punch in writing this novel.

Carol, who almost forgot to say that the novel is "The Heretic's Daughter" by Kathleen Kent