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  • although it is a journal style, it didn't seem like it and it flowed together very nicely. It is based on a journal that was actually found sewen into a quilt. I enjoyed the historical truth and accuracy of the novel

    

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Read by Jennifer Ehle
Approx. 6.5 hours
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Mary's grandmother is executed for witchcraft, and Mary is forced to leave her home to avoid the same fate. At first she flees to the English countryside, but when the atmosphere of superstition and suspicion becomes all consuming she leaves on a boat for America in the hope that she can start over and forget her past. But during the journey, she realizes that the past is not so easy to escape.

• Young Adultcolonial1961-presentbritish litchildrenNovelSeriesSalemSeventeenth CenturyMassachuesetts
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