The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

By Katherine Howe
(Hyperion, Hardcover, 9781401340902, 384pp.)

Publication Date: June 9, 2009

Other Editions of This Title: Paperback (March 17, 2010), Large Print (October 2009), Compact Disc (June 9, 2009)

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Selected by Indie Booksellers for the June 2009 Indie Next List
“Connie Goodwin should be writing her Ph.D. dissertation. Instead, her mother has asked her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, Massachusetts. While cleaning up the years of dust and cobwebs, Connie makes discoveries that lead her back to the world of the Salem witch trials. Howe does a superb job at combining modern day language with the 17th century voices, pulling you even deeper into a story of mystery and witches. Marvelous and terrifying at the same time. I loved it!”
-- Annie Philbrick, Bank Square Books, Mystic, CT


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Written by an author completing a Ph.D. in New England Studies, and whose ancestors had been accused witches in Salem, "The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane" travels seamlessly between the trials in the 1690s and a modern woman's story of mystery and discovery.