Summary
In 1991 Connie Goodwin, a graduate student at Harvard, is working on her dissertation in American Colonial history. When her eccentric mother, Grace, asks her to clean out their ancestral home in Marblehead, Mass., Connie discovers references to a book of spells owned by one Deliverance Dane, a family relation who quite possibly was the only practicing witch tried during the Salem Witch trials.
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Critique
This charming book is compulsively readable. A perfectly thrilling combination of suspense, historical fiction, magic, and a tinge of romance. Alternating chapters tell of Connie's modern day life and the problems her research brings her, and Deliverance's life and woes in Salem during the 17th century. Highly recommend.
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