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By day, Ivy Boscawen mourns the loss of her son Tim in the Great War. But by night she mourns another boy – one whose death decades ago haunts her still.
The Witch Finder’s Sister by Beth Underdown review
But it also triggers memories of 30 years ago when another boy died in traumatic circumstances, and she's been left haunted by his death ever since. The story flits between the 2 timelines seamlessly and both are full of mystery, deception and tragedy. Matthew Hopkins is of course the infamous Witchfinder General, who presided over more deaths of accused withes in the course of two years, than in the entirety of the previous 100 years. And though many people will know Hopkins’ story from the Tigon Horror film starring Vincent Price, for the people of Essex, tales of Hopkins run deep in the collective psyche as a tale told across generations. Coming from Essex and as a connoisseur of witchcraft and the occult, I was extremely excited to watch this new play. In the dead of night a fire sweeps through a Manor House claiming more than just timber and objects of every day life. No, this fire also claimed the boy that Ivy still cannot forget for something happened that fateful night which to this day still haunts her. Want to join one of the fastest-growing communities of UK indie horror fans and creators for FREE? Now you can!By day, Ivy Boscawen mourns the loss of her son Tim, a loving and kind young man who Ivy loved with all of her heart, before the Great War took him and left her in eternal grief and changed forever. Essex, 1645. Alice Hopkins ( Lily Knight) finds herself widowed, pregnant, and forced to return to her childhood home in Manningtree to throw herself on the goodwill of her brother Matthew ( George Kemp). But Manningtree is rife with rumours of witchcraft, and Matthew is poised to launch upon his infamous reign of terror. Alice races to reveal what’s compelling the obsessively cruel Witchfinder General, before more innocent women are found guilty. What a gothically infused gem of a novel. A dark, mysterious manor house in Cornwall, some of the creepiest characters you will ever meet, and a distinct flavour of Du Maurier throughout. This is a novel where the tiniest of details means something very significant. Keys, shadows, noises next door….and a veil of truth and lies covering anything that might explain away the fog.
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Been waiting for Beth Underdown's second book after the intense Witchfinder's Sister and this was an equally engrossing read.For Ivy is sure that there is more to what happened all those years ago: the fire at the Great House, and the terrible events that came after. A truth she must uncover, if she is ever to be free. Laced with a heavy sense of loss and sadness this book is a slow burn, the story itself quite emotionally harrowing which is exacerbated by the grief felt by Ivy, as well as the, often cloying, atmosphere that the author weaves around the characters. The tension increases as the two threads and timelines start to come to their conclusions, and the sedate pace of what has come before is ramped up a notch or two. In the 1918 section, Ivy has married Richard Boscawen who is the coroner. She has always regretted not marrying the love of her life, Edward Tremain. She has recently found out her son has been killed in the war, and is determined to find out exactly how he died. When she reads in the deaths section of the newspaper that Edward’s son had died in the war she begins writing to Edward in the hopes of rekindling their friendship and perhaps take it further, now that her husband does not have long to live.
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