01950cam a2200337 i 4500 577834253 TxAuBib 20220712120000.0 210511s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780593396513 large print: paperback 0593396510 large print: paperback TxAuBib rda Bohjalian, Christopher A, author. Hour of the witch : a novel / Chris Bohjalian. First Large Print Edition. New York : Random House Large Print, [2021] 592 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 588-590). Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes Delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in The New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary's hand, she resolves that she must divorce him to save her life. But in a world where every neighbor is watching for signs of the devil, Mary soon finds herself the object of suspicion and rumor. When tainted objects are discovered buried in Mary's garden, when a boy she has treated with herbs and simples dies, and when their servant girl runs screaming in fright from her home, Mary must fight not only to escape her marriage, but also the gallows. 20220712. Puritans Fiction. Women Fiction. Wife abuse Fiction. Large type books. Boston (Mass) History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Fiction. Historical fiction. Suspense fiction.